Over the next three decades, more than 300 counties in the West will see more severe smoke waves from wildfires.
Wildfire smoke obscures the Golden Gate Bridge in November 2018. Tens of millions of people in California and the West face a growing health risk due to wildfires as more intense and frequent blazes churn out greater volumes of lung-damaging smoke. )
"There's so little we can do. We have air purifiers and masks — otherwise we're just like 'Please don't burn,'" said Sarah Rochelle Montoya, who fled her San Francisco home with her husband and children last fall to escape thick smoke enveloping the city from a disastrous fire roughly 150 miles away.
The scope of the problem is immense: Over the next three decades, more than 300 counties in the West will see more severe smoke waves from wildfires, according to atmospheric researchers led by a team from Yale and Harvard. In some cases, the smoke will last week longer than in years past., which killed 85 people and destroyed 14,000 homes in Paradise, Calif.
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