Definitely the worst air quality I think I've ever experienced in my life and so uh joining us now is a Wayne State University Professor who

career studying uh how to reduce your exposure and the health impacts from the smoke that we were we were seeing that was coming down from the Canadian wildfires and that is associate professor of Public Health here at Wayne State University you Chang Liu

also joining us live here is Nina ignazak she's a long time local environmental journalist and the founder of Planet Detroit on online news environmental news site covering what's going on Detroit Michigan and Beyond environmentally Nina and yuchang welcome to the show thank you hey Amanda all right let's get into this and I'm glad I forgot both 

of you here because Nina planet has been doing some really incredible work uh covering what has been happening with our air quality uh in the past week we we talked about uh the guide that you had put up on the site too last week for for residents not only here in Detroit but here in southeast Michigan a survival guide to wildfires and bad air 

quality so I'm really glad to be having this conversation because although today it is better I know the air quality index has definitely uh decreased significantly from where it was last week uh but this this this this danger uh in this situation that we had last week it seems like it will be going forward into the future Nina can you can you talk 

about what you were hearing from your uh readers here at Planet Detroit and what you were seeing I from the the Michigan Health Department and the Detroit Health Department yeah I think in a lot of ways