Sky turns orange due to deadly wild fires
If you haven’t heard by now you have probably seen the videos and pictures of the sky turning orange. No this is not a filter nor is it a camera trick. The sky turning orange is due to the large fires that are burning in California, Oregon, and in Washington state.
One of the fires now has reached the status of “biggest fire in California history”. The fire was sparked by lightning in Mendocino National Forest, midway between Sacramento and the Oregon border, and has consumed at least 471,000 acres. That is 12,000 more than the 459,000 acres that burned in the Mendocino Complex wildfire in 2018.
At this point firefighters are stretched between the three states and all working together to put out these fires. Around 3.1 million acres have burned in California alone, 672,000 in Oregon and 500,000 in Washington state. Towns have been wiped out. “It looks like a bomb went off” said Oregons governor.
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