(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Smokey skies near Woodland Hills during the the Pole Creek fire in 2018. Tens of millions of people in the Western US face a growing health risk due to wildfires as more intense and frequent blazes churn out greater volumes of lung-damaging smoke, according to research scientists at NASA and several major universities.
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