Oregon wildfire fallout a sign of seasons to come

This summer’s wildfires have left Lauren Spector emotionally and physically spent. Her asthma’s been terrible. The 70-year-old retiree can’t sleep. And the looming threat of evacuation scares her.

She’s been all but imprisoned in her Brookings home for the past three weeks, leaving just a handful of times, as the Chetco Bar fire chewed through 177,000 acres of forest and brush, a scant five miles away.

Source: Oregon wildfire fallout a sign of seasons to come | OregonLive.com