Fires like these used to be atypical.
I live in an area where fires are not a threat, but more and more the outdoor air becomes unsafe to breath due to fires in the region.
The air when I was much younger used to be caked in smog. The LA area has actually fixed this considerably but it doesn't even matter much at this point.
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