Smoke from coastal wildfires concealing local blazes
September: A view of the southern hillside in Wallace over the course of four days.
Photo by CHANSE WATSON
The heavy blanket of smoke enveloping Shoshone County — along with the rest of the Northwest — stems primarily from wildfires in Oregon and California, but that doesn’t mean we locals don’t have our own fires to put out.
The Bernard Fire was originally discovered in the mid-afternoon hours of Labor Day along Lake Pend Oreille about a half-mile south of Bayview...
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