number of years a go. wore a particle mask because of heart problems with the smoke. cough ,cough.

in San Diego in 2002 and 2007. It looked like that for 5 days each time.

I woke up at noon on Sunday morning (slept late) and I thought I had slept all day since it looked like sunset when I woke up. Schools were closed for a week during each fire. Ashes were falling from the sky, looking like large, grey snowflakes. Creepy. Only a change in wind stopped one fire, the other burned all the was to the coast. Thousands of homes/structures were destroyed. Several fellow teachers lost their homes.

I wore a mask when I was teaching (this was way before Covid but I knew it was not healthy for my lungs). I got odd looks but didn't care.