Smoke from Amazon fires leaves Brazil’s largest city in total darkness

Massive fires burning in the Amazon rainforest caused a daytime blackout in Brazil’s largest city this week.

Day turned to night at around 3 p.m. Monday in São Paulo and the darkness lasted for about an hour, local paper Folha de S.Paulo reported.

Photos and videos posted on social media showed eerie scenes of cars driving with their headlights on and pedestrians walking against blackened skies in the mid-afternoon.