Residents’ lungs aged ‘more rapidly’ after exposure to smoke from Hazelwood coalmine fire, research shows
by Petra Stock from on (#6Q31C)
Study finds statistically significant association' between exposure to fine particles in coalmine fire smoke and aging of lungs, equal to 4.7 years
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Retired secondary school teacher Howard Williams remembers watching a gumtree literally explode from the heat".
It was the beginning of the Hazelwood coalmine fire, which broke out on 9 February 2014 in the middle of a hot, dry summer.
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