As I write this, a largely uncontained wildfire rages just 25 miles to my east. The Bolt Creek Fire in Western Washington sparked on Saturday morning, and within hours, much of the western half of the state was choking on toxic smoke. The sky glowed with an eerie orange haze. Falling from the sky were pieces of ash so large they looked like confetti. By Saturday evening this past weekend, the Seattle metropolitan area had some of the worst air quality in the world.
