We live by downtown and went to the beach (Mission) every day last week plus popped into Sea World Thursday morning and just got back from the zoo this morning. From all of these locations, you can only see smoke on the horizon (and could easily mistake it for May Gray.) We have not even been affected by the air quality, nor has anyone I've spoken with.
My mom lives near the Safari Park and there are no fires in that area. Of course the smoke is much more prevalent up there since most of the fires are in North County and air quality is worse.