I have friends who wear covid masks when shopping and dust masks when getting into their cars so they can hunker down at home in stifling heat with their windows closed. The only up-side if you can consider it so, is that the sunsets are really interesting, with deep sunset colors fighting the ashen atmosphere.

This occurred a couple years ago in our town due to fires among the beetle killed trees to the south of Anchorage, but what is happening in California and Washington is far far worse.