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OK, I didn't know that. Keep the outside out. Got it. Check.

Okay, wash the outside off you and your clothes if you go out there.

Okay, wash the outside off you and your clothes if you go out there.

Okay, wash the outside off you and your clothes if you go out there.

OK, so like I know when it's getting really bad out there. All right. I'm about to download that. OK. All right, Britt. Thank you so much for validating the allergy struggle and also for sharing some tips with us.

OK, so like I know when it's getting really bad out there. All right. I'm about to download that. OK. All right, Britt. Thank you so much for validating the allergy struggle and also for sharing some tips with us.

OK, so like I know when it's getting really bad out there. All right. I'm about to download that. OK. All right, Britt. Thank you so much for validating the allergy struggle and also for sharing some tips with us.

Love it.

Love it.

Love it.

Fact-checked by Rasha Reedy and edited by Viet Le. The audio engineer for this episode was Josh Newell. I'm Maddie Safaya. Thanks for listening to Shortwave from NPR.

Fact-checked by Rasha Reedy and edited by Viet Le. The audio engineer for this episode was Josh Newell. I'm Maddie Safaya. Thanks for listening to Shortwave from NPR.

Fact-checked by Rasha Reedy and edited by Viet Le. The audio engineer for this episode was Josh Newell. I'm Maddie Safaya. Thanks for listening to Shortwave from NPR.

I don't know about you, but when I hear the word smoke, it makes me think of like huge thick plumes of different shades of gray sort of blanketing everything, you know, nothing too complicated. For somebody like Jessica, though.

I don't know about you, but when I hear the word smoke, it makes me think of like huge thick plumes of different shades of gray sort of blanketing everything, you know, nothing too complicated. For somebody like Jessica, though.

I don't know about you, but when I hear the word smoke, it makes me think of like huge thick plumes of different shades of gray sort of blanketing everything, you know, nothing too complicated. For somebody like Jessica, though.

biomass. We're talking things like trees and brush that burn up in a wildfire. When it comes to particles in smoke, there's also a huge range from larger ones in the form of ash and dust that can more quickly settle out of the sky.

biomass. We're talking things like trees and brush that burn up in a wildfire. When it comes to particles in smoke, there's also a huge range from larger ones in the form of ash and dust that can more quickly settle out of the sky.

biomass. We're talking things like trees and brush that burn up in a wildfire. When it comes to particles in smoke, there's also a huge range from larger ones in the form of ash and dust that can more quickly settle out of the sky.

Yeah. And from the particulates side, the thing that people seem to be the most freaked out about is this PM 2.5, or the little particles that are super, super small. Yeah. And there seems to be a lot of that going on right now in California and large parts of the West, right? Yeah.