Gasping for Air: The Donora Smog Disaster

Posted by on Sep 18, 2023 in | Comments Off on Gasping for Air: The Donora Smog Disaster   They couldn’t breathe. During five days in autumn of 1948, the industrial town of Donora, Pennsylvania, became an environmental and public health nightmare when what the national media called a “killer smog” took the lives of nearly two dozen people who died struggling to breathe. “We have had the worst fog in the last four days in [the] history of Donora. About 18 persons have died...
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