The orange sky stayed orange until about one o'clock. I'm not making this up. Then there were two hours of gray sky, but it was so dark that all the drivers turned their headlights on. It was like nuclear winter, like science fiction. At about three in the afternoon, the sky became orange again. I am about a hundred miles away from the nearest large fire, and yet it looked like the fire was right here.
The following the day instead of orange, the sky was a white/gray sky. If I went outside, I could feel a stinging sensation in my throat.
Today visibility is about a thousand feet. Three million acres have burned. As far as I can tell, it's the national forests that are still burning. Make of that what you will.