to do because of the ash. because when we left, like i said, the last time we pulled out, there was almost two inches. there have been around 100 fires burning along huge stretches of the west coast. the smoke caught on nasa images. they include some of the biggest wildfires ever recorded in california. san francisco, one of many cities that's disappeared under a shroud of smoke. i'm trying to keep a positive attitude, but it's scary. it's scary. one of those things, you just have to take into consideration that you have to be careful when you're breathing. yep. because you can be inhaling the smoke. unprecedented fires have led to desperate measures to tackle them — scrambling, even, to fly in fire engines. oregon's governor has called this a once—in—a—generation event. thousands of homes have been lost. many dozens of people