NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Smoke from a swamp fire is blowing over Lake Pontchartrain instead of New Orleans. City health commissioner Karen DeSalvo says that apparently cut the number of emergency room visits for asthma and other breathing problems.
She says hospitals tell her such visits have eased from Tuesday’s spike of 159, though figures were not available Wednesday. Tuesday’s figure was up from 40 on Monday.
All day Wednesday, seven Louisiana National Guard helicopters were sloshing water from nearby canals onto the fire.
 
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