As California continues to burn, millions are waking up to eerie skies, with scenes that could only be described as apocalyptic...
Millions of people from California and Oregon woke up on Sept. 9 to scenes straight out of a movie...
Smoke from the wildfires has enveloped the skies in a sinister glow...
In case you were wondering what the apocalypse looks like, here are some mid-morning images from my brother's girl… https://t.co/DP0dy8FBcS— Emma Arnold (@Emma Arnold)1599675978.0
There have been 560 fires so far, with some of them being the biggest on record.
A lot of the other fires are in hard-to-reach areas.
Reuters also recently reported that the flames are now reaching larger areas such as Santa Cruz.
In California, at least 32 major fires were burning as of Wednesday afternoon and more than 64,000 people were under an evacuation order.
Donald Trump is being urged to issue a presidential disaster declaration.
LA fire chief, Ralph Terrazas, has previously spoken out when the wildfires first started getting fierce.
And now it seems as though even that level of protection is not enough.
However, things are only getting worse.
How was such a devastating blaze caused?
Experts have also stated that climate change has played a role in all of this.
The firefighters on the front line are working hard to tackle the blaze.
However, this is easier said than done.
So this is why the state is pleading for help.
And despite the help from other countries, they're still in a desperate battle to contain the flames...
Insane skies right now in Stayton, Oregon. 🤯 Crazy these images aren’t from the early morning or late at night... t… https://t.co/BDHQ7KLghD— Bonnie Silkman KPTV (@Bonnie Silkman KPTV)1599590933.0
CalFire reported 7 confirmed deaths on Wednesday as a result of the blazes.
The Golden Gate Bridge under dark orange skies in San Francisco due to multiple wildfires burning. #2020 is in the… https://t.co/4sZY4GPM8z— ल_Lit🔥 (@ल_Lit🔥)1599727576.0
In the San Francisco Bay Area, people woke to apocalyptic scenes out of windows, where the light had cast a dim fog.
Sunrise on September 9, 2020, the 23rd consecutive Spair-the-Air day due to wildfires. Yesterday, we had ash fallin… https://t.co/N5BdHmpkrn— A-ha-ha, Evee! (@A-ha-ha, Evee!)1599659452.0
From Berkeley and Oakland to as far away as Salem people were baffled by the views, which lead many to believe it was still night despite being 8 in the morning.
If this orange sky is representative of anything—it’s that the time to act on climate change was years ago. Growin… https://t.co/RMuqxaM8R7— James Coleman (@James Coleman)1599673264.0
The Bay Area Air Quality District tried to explain the phenomena in a tweet...
“These smoke particles scatter blue light & only allow yellow-orange-red light to reach the surface, causing skies to look orange. If smoke becomes too thick in a certain area, most of the light will be scattered & absorbed before reaching the surface, which may cause dark skies."Jessica Christian, a photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle, tweeted about her thoughts on it all...
“People really don’t know what to do right now," she wrote. “Everyone on the Embarcadero is stopping to record the sky and chit chatting in a way I haven’t seen since pre-pandemic."A shared sense of uncertainty also lingers in the air. Is it safe to go outside?
The wildfire sky over California is very... unsettling. https://t.co/xV5DE1ADmL— Altif Brown 🇺🇸 (@Altif Brown 🇺🇸)1599669694.0
2020 has beaten 2018’s record of more than 1.9 million acres burned, as 2.2 million acres have gone up in flames in California this year alone.
My sister just took these pictures from her house in Sublimity. She says there are large chunks of ash falling arou… https://t.co/j6aAeheViN— John Hendricks (@John Hendricks)1599578711.0
We can only hope that the fires start to die down.
Hwy 213 Road conditions heading back toward Oregon City. @fox12oregon https://t.co/taQk4JFJuE— Devin Eskew (@Devin Eskew)1599689772.0