Caroline Fraser
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And it was smog from industry and from coal fires.
And I think they paid kind of a terrible price.
The Great Smog of 1952.
And a lot of people who had asthma died, you know, because it was so terrible.
The air was just so terrible.
There was a similar event in Pennsylvania.
Yeah, I think Puget Sound had a problem that was caused by sort of the geography of the area because, you know, Puget Sound is kind of a trough between the Olympic Mountains and the Cascade Mountains.
And so it's a low area.
Certain times of the year, everybody used to heat their houses with wood fires, with Franklin stoves and stuff like that.
So not as many people use that anymore.
And like when I was a kid, I remember the skies being really gray a lot, you know, especially during the winter.
And I think part of that was from the smoke kind of settling in that Puget Sound trough between the mountains.