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Worsening wildfires in California’s wine country threaten low-wage farm workers

Wildfire season is here and in California alone, this year’s fires have already burned more acres than at this time in 2020. In recent years, Sonoma County, north of San Francisco, where wine vineyards dot the landscape and tourism is a billion-dollar industry, wildfire has become a part of daily life. But as Stephanie Sy reports it affects certain groups worse than others.

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