Tracy Koa, a high school teacher in Oregon, was in her classroom last Tuesday preparing for the first day of school – which would be online due to COVID-19 – when her 13-year-old daughter called in alarm: A fire was coming, and they had to evacuate, now. Koa raced home. From the driveway of her house in Talent, Oregon, she watched the cloud of smoke from the nearby wildfire turn to black from gray, a sign she knew meant homes were aflame.
