September 9, 2020, was the day smoke from Northern California wildfires gave the Bay Area a Mars-like appearance.“It was kinda just gloomy. It was a little eerie just going outside and it seemed like it was nighttime, but it wasn’t,” recalled Brandon De La Paz, who remembers it well because he has asthma.
But now, according to a new study out of Princeton University, that could be the norm in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California during fire season in the coming decades. Diao says researchers are most concerned about micro particle pollution from wildfires known as PM2.5. They are tiny specs, 20 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair, and carry poisons that lodge in the lungs and blood stream.
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