The Camp Fire´s flames were deadly. Its smoke could be even more dangerous
(WorldNews Environment)

A year of fire and relentless heat has spilled over into a grimy, smoky, full-blown public health crisis in northern California. While the epicenter of the Camp Fire´s gruesome tragedy is in the town of Paradise, where 63 people are known to have died and 631 are still missing, many more people in the region are suffering from the life-threatening impact of wildfire smoke. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar officially declared a public health emergency for California on Tuesday, and since then, air quality conditions have only gotten worse. On Thursday, northern California´s Air Quality Index, a measure of how...