Oh my gosh! That is seriously scary. I lived in Arizona for a long time. Lightning season always set a mountain on fire, as did the fireworks on 4th of July- and watching it burn its way towards the house was never fun. Neither was the smoke. Stay safe!
I once lived at the canyon's bottom about 35 yrs ago but chose to locate further away and haven't regretted it. We were lucky this time that the smoke/fire got blown in the opposite direction and bless the aircraft and ground fighters to contain the fires. Two fires were going at once to merge into one big fire and aircraft were going all night overhead. I've been staying up all night because I can't rest easy until the fires are completely out. We got an extra influx of hummingbirds at the feeder - happens every time there's fires in the canyon. The temperature was bad enough for our little flock today and TG for little favours that the smoke at least was blowing away from us. TY for your well wishes!