MINNESOTA -- A wildfire in Minnesota in causing trouble in Michigan. A smoky odor can be smelled in parts of Northern Michigan, but the source is a wildfire hundreds of miles away in Northern Minnesota.
Northwesterly winds blew the smoke from the wildfire that has been burning for nearly a month. The fire started August 18 from a lightning strike. Since then, the fire has tripled in size and has consumed around 16,000 acres.
The fire is mainly located in the Boundary Waters wilderness area of Minnesota. The smoke is so thick that pilots are having a hard time getting an accurate reading of how much land has been burned.
Some residents and vacationers are being asked to evacuate the area as the fire is spreading closer to homes and cabins.
The U.P. was recently filled with smoke during forest fires in Canada in the middle of July after winds carried the smell and haze from the Ontario Province blaze.
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