In photos: Wildfires continue to rage across California.
A firefighter works the scene as flames push towards homes during the Creek fire in the Cascadel Woods area of unincorporated Madera County, California on September 7, 2020.San Francisco Bay Area residents awoke to darkened orange and yellow skies on Wednesday morning, as smoke from fires raging across California and the West rose into the upper atmosphere and blotted out the sun.
, which started Friday, has burned more than 163,000 acres east of Fresno and is 0% contained. Fires in Oregon and Washington are also contributing to the unusual conditions.The Transamerica Building in San Francisco darkened by orange-colored smoke high in the atmosphere, several hours after sunrise on Wednesday, Sept. 9.Smoke in the upper atmosphere turns the sky near the Coit Tower in San Francisco an eerie orange on Wednesday morning, Sept. 9.
Firefighters Rob Spitzer, Max Kitty, Josiah Gist, and Hunter Grossmann with Cal Fire Madera Mariposa Merced Unit - Rancheria takes a break along Waterfall Way in the Cascadel Woods community where he and his colleagues have been fighting the Creek Fire since Saturday , photographed on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020 in Madera County, CA.Smoke from the Creek Fire settles over Half Dome and Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, California, U.S., on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020.
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