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California’s raging wildfires have created a smoky haze so stifling that doctors in the state’s landlocked farm country say their waiting rooms have been crowding with patients struggling to breathe the soot-laden air.

Hundreds of firefighters worked Tuesday to fight blazes from the western Sierra Nevada to coastal mountains near Big Sur.

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