Update and How to Prepare for Summer Smoke
Karen Morris, Mary Eusterman, Carolyn Bailey, Steve Morris, Steve Morris, Louise Williams
May 11, 2021
on Zoom
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What to do Today to Prepare for Summer Smoke handout
Video Time Stamps
00:00 Welcome
02:50. Red binder update, Karen Morris
04:49. Ready Force initiatives, Mary Eusterman
10:50. Skills, Supplies, Equipment, Needs survey, Carolyn Bailey
18:30. Preparing for Summer Smoke, Steve Morris
34:55. Neighborhood meetings, Louise Williams
36:40 Q&A
1 hour: 14 minutes – end
How to Create a Clean Room
Creating a “clean room” is one of the most effective ways to ensure you are breathing healthy air during a smoke emergency. In the following video, a PSU professor shows how to create one, and shows tests results that demonstrate how well a clean room can work.
Consumer Report Ratings of Air Purifiers
View the ratings of a number of air purifiers by clicking this link
Build Your Own Box Fan Air Purifier
The how-to article using one MERV 13 filter is at this link.
An improvement to the original design using multiple MERV 13 filters is at this link
And an even better version that uses a cardboard gasket is at this link
This Old House did a video on the do-it-yourself box filter at this link
Here is a video from an outfit that built one of these and measured the resulting particulate reduction.