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Wildfire smoke, moreover, causes health problems in metropolises such as L.A., the Bay Area, Chicago and New York City.

West Palm Street extends east and west above Altadena Drive, not far from where the greater metropolis runs up against the mountains.

“L.A. is suburban density built out to the sea. It isn’t viable for a 21st century metropolis.”

Since then, bone-dry conditions have set the stage for the catastrophic wildfires now descending upon the metropolis from multiple directions.

As an Irish reporter who happened to be on her flight hurled questions at her, the mayor of the nation’s second-largest metropolis stood silent and seemingly paralyzed.