The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980
The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980
The sun, colored bright orange by the smoke in the atmosphere, breaks through the clouds as the hills east of Lincoln appear as vague shapes in the distance Monday morning.
Smoke from fires in Canada and the Pacific Northwest created a dramatic firers Friday Aug. 17. Air quality worsened over the weekend as more smoke from those fires blanketed Montana
Smoke from fires in Canada and the Pacific Northwest created a dramatic firers Friday Aug. 17. Air quality worsened over the weekend as more smoke from those fires blanketed Montana
With only a few small fires burning anywhere near Lincoln, the thick pall of smoke that descended on the area seemed to arrive out of nowhere, but was actually the result of wildfires burning in British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, and Northwest Montana.
The miasma of smoke settled across most of the state during the weekend and prompted the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to issue an air quality alert for all 56 Montana counties Sunday.
Air quality in western Montana ranged from 'unhealthy' to 'unhealthy for sensitive groups' into Monday afternoon, but storms that moved through the area and dropped nearly half an inch of rain improved the air quality considerably by Monday night. (Roger Dey Photo)
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