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Smoke in the North? What to do when you’re traveling amid wildfire season
Summer smoke from Canadian wildfires is once again hazing out Minnesota skies — just in time for your long-awaited Northwoods ...
Colorado wildfires: Firefighters gain containment on 4 still-spreading Western Slope fires
Together, the fires burning on Colorado’s Western Slope had consumed nearly 25,000 acres as of Sunday morning.
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Rochester area still feeling impact of wildfire smoke on Tuesday
The Rochester area is still having some air quality concerns on Tuesday because of smoke from Canadian wildfires.
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Rainy weather helps crews make progress on Western Slope fires, but also brings possibility of flash flooding in burn scars
An air-quality alert remains in effect until Saturday at 9 a.m. for Mesa and Montrose counties due to lingering wildfire ...
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Colorado wildfires: Five fires on Western Slope burn nearly 21,000 acres
Four of the five wildfires burning on Colorado’s Western Slope have together consumed nearly 21,000 acres, according to fire ...
Which wildfire smoke plumes are hazardous? New satellite tech can map them in 3D for air quality alerts at neighborhood scale
But when smoke plumes are close to the surface, people are breathing in wildfire chemicals and tiny particles. Those particles, known as PM2.5, can get deep into the lungs and exacerbate asthma and ...