Eugene or LA? 'The air quality changed overnight'

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Burnout
Some of the smoke comes from a firefighting practice known as "burnout." Crews use a controlled fire to burn up fuels in advance of the wildfire, robbing the marauding flames of fuel. Photo by Trevor Shipley