wildfires – Oakland North

Climate change has made California hotter and drier, leading to more explosive wildfires and a longer fire season. Experts say it will only get worse.

Smoke coming from the recent wildfires is taking a toll on the health of Bay Area residents.

Corvin Busche, a student at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences in Germany studying Oakland's homeless community, sits in front of a homeless encampment in Oakland. He said that he could see a thin layer of white ash from the smoke caused by the wildfires. “It was like making a fire in the woods,” he said.

Volunteers from Oakland-based organizations are distributing respiratory masks to homeless people in Oakland to stave off poor air quality caused by historic wildfires in California’s Wine Country.

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“No such thing as the new normal,” California fires larger and more severe than ever

Wildfire smoke continues to affect the health of Bay Area residents

Volunteers distribute respiratory masks to the homeless in Oakland

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