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Poor air quality due to wildfires...any concern?

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Flying_Monkey

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I flew myself down to San Diego from L.A. for work and I am headed back tomorrow. Since I have been gone, there is a wildfire close to my home airport. The TFR is a few miles away but reading news articles it looks like the air quality is terrible and some METARS of local airports report Smoke. One news article talks about ashes falling on a neighborhood all day...

Just curious if there is hazard to damage my engine or aircraft systems flying in poor air quality or these conditions. The airport is KWHP Whiteman (close to KBUR Burbank and KVNY Van Nuys in California). The fire is in the city of Santa Clarita, just a few miles north on KWHP Whiteman. Any advice before my scheduled departure tomorrow morning is much appreciated!

Thanks!
 

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