Scarred land: Wildfires and Nature's chemical weapons

From June to August this past summer 2018, California, Colorado and Utah experienced the latest massive wildfires yet. The Carr fire, Mendocino Complex Fire, from Sacramento to North of San Francisco and Santa Barbara-San Diego fires scorched the Californian landscape and displaced over a million peoples. Lake Christine fire in Colorado also displaced residents from small Colorado towns. As said before Mother Nature is on her long war of aggression against the United States. Environmentalists and scientists have warned for decades that the wildfires were getting deadly and larger. California has a 100 years of massive wildfires. The most famous being the 1889 Santiago Canyon Fire that was the largest in the state's history. This year's Mendocino Complex fire just surpassed Santiago Canyon as the largest with over 600,000 acres. The wildfires in California were unusually large this year that it created its own weather system and introduced another new kind of weather term a firenado (Fire + tornado). The fires have been contained but the damages and dispossession still continue. British Colombia in Canada also caught fire along with Scandinavia and the Arctic Circle.

Chemical weapons of Mother Nature

To top off the destruction, the wildfires also unleashed its own chemical weapons in the form of skin rashes, contained water, respiratory problems and diseases for both the victims and firemen . The continental winds across the United States carried the wildfire smoke and dust from California all the way to the East Coast particularly New England and New York.