Massive wildfires in US West bring haze to East Coast

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Wildfires in the American West are creating hazy skies as far away as New York as the massive infernos continue to grow and spew smoke and ash into the air. In Oregon, the Bootleg Fire has grown to 606 square miles, about half the size of Rhode Island.

Smoke blocks the view looking toward Manhattan from Yankee Stadium before the Philadelphia Phillies played the New York Yankees in a baseball game Tuesday, July 20, 2021, in New York.

Fires also grew on both sides of California’s Sierra Nevada. In Alpine County, the so-called California Alps, the Tamarack Fire caused evacuations of several communities and grew to 61 square miles with no containment. The Dixie Fire, near the site of 2018′s deadly Paradise Fire, was more than 90 square miles and threatened tiny communities in the Feather River Valley region.The smoke on the U.S.

“I lost my whole life, everything I’ve ever had. The kids are what’s going to matter,” he said as he fielded calls from relatives. “I got three teenagers. They’re going to go home to a moonscape.” The fire in the Fremont-Winema National Forest merged with a smaller nearby blaze Tuesday, and it has repeatedly breached a perimeter of treeless dirt and fire retardant meant to stop its advance.

Extremely dry conditions and heat waves tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight. Climate change has made the West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.

 

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MrTAchilles This is fine.

Right back to the smog of the 70's. Climate change, more specifically drought is what killed off the once powerful and sophisticated Mayan Empire.

- considering itself the 'Leading country of the world' - cannot extinguish the fire on its territory?!

Hazy sky here in SWPA for the last 3 days.

Another example of poor management of the habitat in the he west.

They seed the clouds in the northeast. Why not there too, or are they deliberately burning it like in Brazil?

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