- Elizabeth Larson
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Northern fires continue to send smoke into Lake County
This week regional fires and well as fires out of state have contributed to a thick haze over many parts of Lake County.
Doug Gearhart, air pollution control officer at the Lake County Air Quality Management District, said most of the smoke appears to be coming from fires in Northern California, and possibly from Southern Oregon.
Gearhart explained that smoke from the large fires in Northern California and Southern Oregon are pushed over the ocean, with that smoke then traveling down to the Bay Area and circulating back up over Lake County and the North Coast.
Fires burning in Northern California include the Clear fire, just over 6,700 acres near Happy Camp; the 6,943-acre Orleans complex in Siskiyou County; the Island fire, at 1,470 acres in the Marble Mountain Wilderness west of Etna; and the Ruth complex, at 4,600 acres south of Ruth Lake.
All of those fires are reported to have been caused by lightning.
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