March 11, 2009 in City, Idaho, Region

How radon gas affects humans.

March 8, 2009 in City

Debbie Greenman’s parents had a radon mitigation system installed in their Deer Park home to lower radon gas in the house to safe levels.

Debbie Greenman breathes into an incentive spirometer, which measures how well her lungs fill. Greenman recently had part of her left lung removed due to cancer, and she suspects sky-high levels of radon gas in her Deer Lake home might have contributed to the cancer.