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One night in 2016, Laurie Crosbie woke up in her cabin off California‘s Huntington Lake feeling like she was breathing underwater.

Located an hour and a half outside of Fresno, the cabin was in the crosscurrents of local wildfires that raged during that drought-stricken summer. Smoke had filled the rooms and the fire alarm was going off.

“I felt like I was drowning,” Crosbie recalled.

Days later, she still couldn’t breathe properly and went to the doctor, who used a spirometer to measures how well she could inhale and exhale.

The result was shocking: Crosbie had lost 20 percent of her lung capacity, even though she was a non-smoker, physically active, and otherwise healthy. Simply inhaling and exhaling fire-tinged air had crippled her breathing.

The United States is now in the midst of its worst wildfire season ever, with