The base camp is a cluster of mobile buildings and bright orange accommodation tents housing more than 100 staff, including Greenlanders, Australians, and British former coal miners.

They include Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, easily visible to the naked eye as bright white points of light - and Mars as an orange dot.

When Rogers went outside to investigate, she said she could see the blazing, orange glow of the fire.

Now, they say, "this is a correction", a response to business screaming at them and the arrival of "the orange man in the White House".

As the sun rose on Jan. 8, the sky orange from ash and smoke, Angelenos anxiously waited for news about the extent of the damage from the Altadena and Pacific Palisades fires.