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Smoke Makes It To Washington As British Columbia Burns

KUOW | By Kate O'Connell
Published July 8, 2015 at 2:05 PM AKDT
Smoky skies from wildfires in Vancouver makes for an orange sun as it sets.
Flickr Photo/Alejandro Mejía Greene (CC BY NC ND)
Smoky skies from wildfires in Vancouver makes for an orange sun as it sets.

Ross Reynolds speaks with Vaughn Palmer, columnist for the Vancouver Sun, about the worst fire season British Columbia has ever seen. And Gary Schneider, meteorologist with the National Weather Service, talks about  smoke from Canadian wildfires and the impact it's having in Washington state. 

Photo credit: "Oranga suno," by Alejandro Mejía Greene on Flickr (CC BY NC ND)
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