TABLE 2.
PREVALENCE OF REPORTED SMELL (%) OF FIRE SMOKE INDOORS (BY COHORT), 5-DAY MEAN PM10 DURING THE FIRE PERIOD,* AND LONG-TERM AMBIENT PM10 IN THE 16 COMMUNITIES
| High-School Students (n = 834)
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Elementary-School Children (n = 3,775)
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PM10 in μg/m3
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| Town | Not at All | 1–2 d | 3–5 d | ⩾ 6 d | Not at All | 1–2 d | 3–5 d | ⩾ 6 d | 5-d Mean (fire period) | 1992–2003, Mean |
| Alpine | 27.1 | 21.4 | 20.0 | 31.4 | 21.1 | 23.8 | 19.1 | 33.6 | 201 | 25.3 |
| Anaheim | — | — | — | — | 64.4 | 10.2 | 6.4 | 13.6 | 132 | 36.9 |
| Atascadero | 97.1 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 52 | 21.3 |
| Glendora | — | — | — | — | 54.4 | 20.9 | 8.4 | 13.9 | 158 | 32.5 |
| Lake Arrowhead | 63.6 | 14.6 | 12.1 | 10.6 | 57.7 | 20.1 | 10.4 | 9.4 | 172 | 19.8 |
| Lake Elsinor | 64.5 | 17.7 | 3.2 | 9.7 | 59.0 | 16.1 | 10.8 | 11.7 | 104 | 35.6 |
| Lancaster | 45.9 | 29.5 | 11.5 | 9.8 | — | — | — | — | 45 | 29.0 |
| Lompoc | 88.5 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 5.1 | — | — | — | — | 32 | 14.4 |
| Long Beach | 63.3 | 17.7 | 11.4 | 5.1 | 62.2 | 15.9 | 5.2 | 11.6 | 135 | 36.8 |
| Mira Loma | 54.1 | 16.4 | 13.1 | 16.4 | 47.1 | 13.2 | 13.2 | 23.2 | 250 | 66.3 |
| Riverside | 52.2 | 13.4 | 14.9 | 16.4 | 47.1 | 16.4 | 12.9 | 16.4 | 172 | 42.3 |
| San Bernardino | — | — | — | — | 24.2 | 15.3 | 13.3 | 41.1 | 199 | 51.0 |
| San Dimas | 55.6 | 19.4 | 11.1 | 12.5 | 45.5 | 15.8 | 18.7 | 16.8 | 191 | 36.7 |
| Santa Barbara | — | — | — | — | 80.3 | 9.7 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 30 | 28.2 |
| Santa Maria | 90.3 | 6.5 | 0 | 1.6 | 90.8 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 51 | 22.0 |
| Upland | 26.6 | 7.6 | 24.1 | 39.3 | 20.1 | 18.6 | 20.4 | 39.0 | 252 | 40.7 |
*
Rows do not add up to 100% due to rounding and a few “don't know” answers.