An apocalyptic orange sky blanketed the San Francisco area and ash rained down as deadly wildfires raged out of control in Northern California.
Three people died in a blaze known as the Bear Fire, which was sparked by lightning and raged with renewed intensity this week.
In the San Francisco area, smoke and ash from fires burning roughly 200 miles away blocked out sunlight and created a rust-coloured sky that made it feel like nighttime and was compared to a scene from Mars.
More than 200 wildfires are burning in California, Oregon and Washington in the Pacific Northwest, leaving at least eight dead, including a 12-year-old boy and his grandmother, and scorching more than three million hectares of land.
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