Surviving the smoke-pocalypse 101: Californians offer advice to New Yorkers

Orange smoky skies might be a new phenomenon for those on the east coast, but for the American west, it's just the average summer

It was a sight all too familiar to Californians: orange skies and thick smoke blanketing the sky, emitting the eerily out-of-place smell of a campfire.

But this time the scenes were in New York City, as smoke from more than 400 wildfires darkened the famous skyline and gave the US its worst day of air pollution in recent history.