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In this Thursday, June 6, 2019 photo, Sarah Montoya plays with her daughter, Walden, and twins Farallon, right, and Nicasio, left, at their home in San Francisco. During last year's deadly Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and destroyed 14,000 homes, smoke from the blaze inundated a San Francisco neighborhood roughly 170 miles away where Montoya lives with her husband, Trevor McNeil, and their three children. All three children have respiratory problems suspected to be asthma. But when the smoke from the Camp Fire filled the air for two weeks, the family was unable to find child-sized face masks to protect them or an air filter to clear the air in their house. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Smoke from western wildfires boosting health risk for millions
June 26, 2019 4 a.m.

Smoke from western wildfires boosting health risk for millions

BILLINGS — Climate change in the Western U.S. means more intense and frequent wildfires churning out waves of smoke that scientists say will sweep across the continent to affect tens of millions of people and cause a spike in premature deaths.