By Sarah Mervosh, The New York Times, October 28, 2019
With wildfires raging up and down the state of California on Monday, smoke filled the air in many places, ash fell from the sky, and residents were once again left to wonder whether the very air they were breathing was safe.
The largest, the Kincade fire in Sonoma County north of San Francisco, nearly doubled in size in 24 hours and was just 5 percent contained on Monday, prompting volunteers downwind in the Bay Area to scramble to hand out masks and check on homeless residents.
At the same time, a brush fire broke out early Monday on the western side of Los Angeles and quickly consumed 600 acres. That blaze, known as the Getty fire, led to complaints about air quality near the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, which canceled classes for the day. And smaller fires were burning as far north as Lake Mendocino and as far south as the mountains northeast of San Diego.
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