Wednesday, September 14, 2011
The alert is in effect from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. in Milwaukee and three other counties.
As a result of the large amounts of Minnesota wildfire smoke that passed through the area yesterday the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued a "red alert" air quality notice for Milwaukee County. The advisory, according to the DNR website, has been issued "because of persistent elevated levels of fine particles in the air." According to the advisory, "the air index is currently in or expted to soon be in the red level, which is considered unhealthy for everyone, especially people with heart or lung disease including asthma, older adults and children." The advisory has been issued for Waukesha, Kenosha and Racine counties as well from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel blog, it is the first time …
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Camping trip to northern Minnesota turned surreal for Twin Cities local editor when forest fire grew. The smoke from the forest fire is now in Waukesha and southeastern Wisconsin.
Jeff Roberts, a local editor for the Twin Cities region of Patch.com hyper-local news websites, said it was “surreal” when the smoke mixed with thick fog during a canoeing and camping trip in the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota last week. When his group had to portage canoes, there were firefighters everywhere. The same smoke that has infiltrated Waukesha and southeastern Wisconsin this week was also evident as they spent their days out in nature. “As we were up there, we saw the smoke every day,” Roberts said. “It just kept getting stronger and stronger and thicker and thicker.” At one point, they saw the flames in the trees. “They have evacuated a lot of the townspeople now,” Roberts said. “If we went up this week instead of last …
As smoke from a Minnesota wildfire flows across Wisconsin, state agencies are fielding calls from concerned residents about the smell.
Sussex Fire Chief Colin Curtis woke up this morning to the smell of smoke. He then started driving around the Sussex area to see if anyone might be conducting some sort of “burn pile,” on a day he said was much too windy for something like that. That's when he received the information about smoke from a Minnesota wildfire migrating over Wisconsin and into Illinois and even Michigan. The U.S. Forest Service is requesting additional assistance in controlling and extinguishing the 60,000-acre Pagami Creek fire. Local fire departments and law enforcement agencies all across metro Milwaukee are fielding phone calls from concerned residents regarding the smoky haze, and Department of Natural Resources Air Monitoring Section Chief Bart …
Smoke is coming from Minnesota wildfires.
The Greenfield Fire Department received at least one phone call this morning reporting smoke throughout the city. There have been, however, no reports of a fire in the area. Even when you step outside just about anywhere in the city, it's hazy and there is a smell of smoke. So where is the fire? Surprise, it’s not even in Wisconsin. It is believed that the smoke is coming from the northern Minnesota wildfires. "We think it could be the Minnesota fires," Interim Fire Chief Jon Cohn said. "We just took a call from a resident about smoke in the area, and we think that’s what it is. We might put a message out to Greenfield residents that if there is a smell of smoke in the area to report it, but that, if I can confirm that's what it is, that …
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