We Don’t Have a Clean Indoor Air Act. Are Air Purifiers the Answer?
The howling winds are like nothing I’ve heard before as they beat against the windowpanes. The sky is an eerie gray — not from clouds, but smoke. A massive wildfire rages nearby. Disaster is imminent.
In our second-story apartment, my partner and I pack up our most essential belongings and a few treasured possessions. We tape our window seams to prevent smoke and ash from blowing inside and keep our eyes glued to a map of the fire’s spread.
The rising stress and deteriorating air quality are too much. We head 20 miles south to a hotel, where we stay until the fire is more contained. Even there, we see ash rain down from the sky.
I live in Pasadena, and my apartment was just outside the evacuation zone for the Eaton Fire, which took 19 lives and destroyed over 9,400 structuresin January 2025. That month, the Eaton and...
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