Media mention: ‘Midwesterners are seeing smoke again, NY is next: How you can prepare your home’
June 14, 2023
Where: USA Today, “Midwesterners are seeing smoke again, NY is next: How you can prepare your home”
Who: William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering at Penn State
What: William Bahnfleth, professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, was quoted in an article on how to prepare homes for poor air quality caused by wildfire smoke. Bahnfleth recommended staying indoors when the outdoor air quality is very bad and to wear an N95 mask if going outside is unavoidable. In conjunction with a professor from Virginia Tech, Bahnfleth offered a series of tips for filtering wildfire smoke in homes.