ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2026
Wildland-Urban Interface Fires: Toxic Physicochemical Properties of Emitted Particulate Matter and Impacts on Lung Macrophages.
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Due to the growth of urban areas in close proximity to wildlands, wildfires increasingly burn both biomass and man-made materials. The physicochemical properties of emitted particulate matter (PM) from such "wildland-urban interface (WUI)" fires may differ substantially from those of wildland fires and other ambient PM sources. However, the associations between properties and hazards of WUI fire PM have not been studied. Here, we employed a wildfire simulator (WiFS) to reproduce biomass and WUI fires by combusting pinewood and a simplistic WUI fire model (1:1 mixture of pinewood and polyethylene), respectively. WUI fire PM contained high concentrations of the highly toxic and carcinogenic PAH benzo[c]fluorene and significant amounts of highly bioactive alkyl and oxygenated PAHs, which were both absent in biomass fire PM, and had a carcinogenicity potential (benzo[a]pyrene equivalents, BaP
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