“It was like an angel fell from the sky.” That’s how Zeke Guzman described the day a UC Berkeley researcher contacted him.  Guzman is president of a Sonoma County farmworker advocacy group. He had grown concerned about the health effects of wildfire smoke on people harvesting grapes and powering the region’s famous wine industry. Workers often can’t risk losing out on a day’s wages, even if it comes at the expense of their own health.  Carly Hyland was also concerned. An assistant professor in the School of Public Health, she and a team from Berkeley and the campus’s Human Rights Center were trying to get input from farmworkers about their experiences working in smoky conditions. Hyland asked if Guzman might be able to help them survey workers.  And they did — 1,011 surveys, to be exact. In churches, clinics and homes, the team interviewed people about their experience in fires, the challenges they faced and how to create safer conditions for the future.  About half reported havin...