If you got'em, light'em

SEELEY LAKE - That’s what our sergeant always said announcing break time in Army basic training.

It’s not 2017 but there is still some concern about smoke in our area. I live about a mile downwind of the air quality monitor. The photo above shows how my HEPA filter looked after about a month of breathing air while sleeping before Christmas. Half the filter was vacuumed to show the difference in the filter before and after cleaning.

Our PM 2.5 air still routinely registers in the “Moderate,” regularly in the “Unhealthy for sensitive group” and occasionally spikes into the “Unhealthy” rating.

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