in the coming days, more of california will be swallowed up by flames. we can now speak glen macdonald, a climate and wildfire scientist at ucla. glen had to evacuate from his field research facility in plumas national forest due to the incredible smoke. largely due to the smoke as much as the fire. you are living this nightmare. absolutely. i was evacuated from my home in southern california a couple of years back because of a fire. during the dixie fire we were working in plumas because it was a fire prone environment. the air quality there on friday went to 834 on the index. 300 is