Jeff Himler Friday, Oct. 27, 2023 6:01 a.m. | Friday, Oct. 27, 2023 6:01 a.m. It was 75 years ago when a deadly smog settled over the Washington County mill town of Donora. Over five days — Oct. 27-31 ...

Donora, Pennsylvania has a population of around 4,500. In 1948, there was an air pollution disaster there, known as the Donora Smog, which killed at least 20 people and sickened 6,000 more. The ...

Air pollution from the Donora Zinc Works covered the town for two days, killing 20 and hospitalizing thousands—eventually helping produce the first regulations to restrict air pollution. DONORA, PA — ...

DONORA, Pa. — This week marks 75 years since the infamous “Donora Smog,” killed 21 people in the last week of October 1948. “The Donora Smog is the worst industrial air pollution accident in the ...

DONORA TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND THE LESSONS THAT ARE STILL BEING LEARNED. THE END OF OCTOBER MARKS THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DONORA SMOG INCIDENT. IT’S A BIG STORY WITH IMPORTANT ...

Seventy-five years ago this October, residents in the Mon River mill town of Donora noticed something wrong with the air, something different from the typical steel-industry smog that characterized ...

People in Donora, Pa. in 1948 were accustomed to smoke spewing from the stacks of U.S. Steel Corporation's Donora Zinc Works and American Steel and Wire. But they weren't ready for four days in which ...

From Oct. 26-31, 1948, a blanket of smog engulfed Donora, Pennsylvania. According to an article by Jacobs, Burgess, and Abbott in the American Journal of Public Health, activities such as the Donora ...

"It was so bad," Jerry Campa, a Donora, Pennsylvania, restaurateur recalls, "that I'd accidentally step off the curb and turn my ankle because I couldn't see my feet." The acrid, yellowish gray ...