Ozone Alert issued for Tuesday in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Lawton metro areas

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Division of Environmental High quality (DEQ) is issuing an ozone alert for the Oklahoma Metropolis, Tulsa, and Lawton metropolitan areas for Tuesday, June 15.

DEQ officers say this alert is a prediction that concentrations of ozone will method ranges of concern over the following 24 hours.

Delicate people ought to plan accordingly.

Individuals with lung or coronary heart illness needs to be conscious that elevated air pollution might trigger them to expertise adversarial well being results.

Ozone impacts folks otherwise. 

Unhealthy ranges of ozone may cause throat irritation, coughing, chest ache, shortness of breath, elevated susceptibility to respiratory an infection and aggravation of bronchial asthma and different respiratory illnesses. These signs are worsened by train and heavy exercise.

Kids, older adults and other people with underlying lung illnesses, resembling bronchial asthma, are at explicit danger of affected by these results.

As ozone ranges enhance, the variety of folks affected and the severity of the well being results additionally enhance.

To assist keep away from ozone formation and cut back your publicity:

• Automotive pool or journey the bus to work or faculty.
• Stroll or journey a bicycle for brief journeys throughout morning hours when ozone ranges are decrease.
• Wait till night to refuel your car or mow your garden.
• Arrive and go away work slightly earlier or later than normal to lower rush-hour site visitors.
• Drive your most gas environment friendly car.
• Ensure fuel caps on autos, garden mowers and different gear seal correctly.
• Journey chain, mix errands to make one journey as an alternative of a number of.
• Restrict idling time in your car.
• Restrict the usage of drive-through home windows.
• Restrict the usage of charcoal starter fluid and different merchandise that comprise hydrocarbons.
• Postpone usually permissible out of doors burning to a non-Ozone Watch day.
• Restrict or postpone the usage of two-cycle engines (i.e. lawnmowers, weed eaters, motor boats and motor cycles).

An Air High quality Well being Advisory might be issued if/when ozone ranges attain unhealthy for delicate teams stage.