i too am in SW BC, Greater Vancouver area. The smoke sometimes heads this way, but most of our winds are from the Pacific inland, so we are spared the worst of it. Looking out and seeing everything in an orange hue is strange. And the air quality is poor (or has/can be). Imagine the woman with two small children fleeing their home, and as they drove along the highway the windows exploded from the heat, and the car actually began to melt. That is almost unimaginable.