Spirits lifted today as only a thin stain of brown smoke marred a blue sky over San Bernardino Mountains resorts a few miles from a huge fire that jeopardized vital Labor Day weekend tourist business.
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A reporter who managed to drive through the fire along Double Trouble Road, which parallels the parkway in Berkeley, saw a ghostly landscape of charred trees and smoldering ground under a pall of acrid, purplish-brown smoke.
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In countryside around San Pablo last week, fires burned in the hills and clouds of brown smoke dimmed the sun as peasant farmers hit by the spraying campaign burned virgin forest to plant more cocaine-producing crops.
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Japan has done a fair job of reducing and controlling pollution ( it is a long time since one could see factories around Tokyo belching black or brown smoke ) but Hong Kong has been slow to move in the same direction.
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For the streets were so full of dense brown smoke that scarcely anything was to be seen .'O, dear no, miss,'he said .'This is a London particular .'I had never heard of such a thing .'A fog, miss,'said the young gentleman ."
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Characteristic signs of a backdraft situation include yellow or brown smoke, smoke which exits small holes in puffs ( a sort of breathing effect ) and is often found around the edges of doors and windows, and windows which appear brown or black when viewed from the exterior.
