Wildfires rage All Over Ca

By: Jared Valencia

California, a really nice state with beautiful points of interest is a wonderful place known for its beaches. But on the bad side, California is known for its extreme natural disasters that include floods, earthquakes, and wildfires.

Although floods and earthquakes are very devastating, wildfires are very common but also one of the scariest and most dangerous disasters that happen in California.

Wildfires are known to affect the climate, according to esrl.noaa.gov, “ Wildfires release large amounts of carbon dioxide, black carbon, brown carbon, and ozone precursors into the atmosphere. These emissions affect radiation, clouds, and climate on regional and even global scales”.

When this happens, it really affects the climate and it also affects the air quality. As we’ve all experienced just about a month ago, we had really big wildfires that caused the sky to look orange and just overall ugly for days.

Douglas Morton, a chief of the Nasa Goddard biospheric sciences laboratory, says in a BBC news story, “Fire emissions this year far outpace the annual totals for all other years.” This is important and kinda scary because, if this year's fire outpaces for all other years, who knows how bad or how strong they will be next year.

The air quality was extremely bad to breathe in, since all those toxins can really hurt and mess up our lungs. The ashes that fires release into the air was seen everywhere, on your cars, on the floor, and you would even have ash fall on you as you walked outside.

As these wildfires are being battled throughout all of California, the aftermath of these wildfires is heartbreaking. There are thousands of people and animals that are left without homes. Many people are taken down by the flames including many firefighters. Firefighters are sent into the fires to take them down. As a result, some of them are unfortunately killed by the fires. According to mercurynews.com, a total of 32 firefighters have been killed since August.

It is very devastating knowing these heroic people put their lives up for the sake of their community. They are there to help and protect us even if it means to lose their life.