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Calif. farm workers fired for leaving fields during wildfire

Air quality in the region was at dangerously poor levels and 15 workers at Crisalida Farms decided they could not handle it any longer

By John Cadiz Klemack
NBC Bay Area

OXNARD, Calif. — More than a dozen farm workers in Southern California were out of a job after walking out of the fields last week, forced indoors because of heavy smoke from a massive wildfire burning nearby.

“Oh, yeah, the smoke was very bad. That’s no doubt about that,” said Lauro Barrajas, of the United Farm Workers.

As the blaze, dubbed the Springs Fire, continued to grow in Camarillo May 2, farm workers 11 miles south in Oxnard said they started to feel the effects of the smoke in the strawberry fields.

Full story: Calif. Farm Workers Fired for Leaving Fields During Wildfire

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