We're down here in Southeast PA, and the wildfire smoke went from "huh, that's odd" to "what the frrp?" so quickly.

I have to admit that it caught me a little off guard; a massive blanket of smoke that lasted days was not really on my list of preps.

As a firefighter, they've beaten into my head the danger of the fine particulates that come with smoke, so I took the fact that when I got home from work, the particulate levels at my house were 462 on a scale that only went to 500 seriously.

The perma-stash of N95's were really useful, I was out weeding the garden while masked, but I felt bad for my cats. They hate wearing N95's.

The smoke was seeping into the house, and I was able to build a relatively high-volume faux-HEPA air filter from a box fan, cardboard and a furnace filter, it worked quite well, but it was ugly.