SMH<\/p>\n
Sometimes you don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. In this case, both.<\/p>\n
Check out the photo<\/a> above. (If you’re getting this by email, click up on the headline.)<\/p>\n Now anyone who has read the article, or knows anything about heat-related illness (which apparently doesn’t include headline writers at KGET) should know that this makes no sense. Respirators do not protect workers against heat. Respirators do, however, protect workers against wildfire smoke and Valley Fever<\/a> (a disease caused by a fungus that grows in the soil and dirt in some areas of California and the southwestern United States.) Which is what the respirators referenced here are actually for.<\/p>\n