Smoke From Cascade Range Fires Drifts Into Okanagan Kelowna News
Fire smoke drifts into the Okanagan Friday afternoon. The orange haze of wildfire smoke has drifted over the Okanagan. Smoke is drifting north from the White River and Irving Peak fires burning in the Cascade Mountains east of Seattle. The fires started when a lightning storm moved through the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest on Aug. 11, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The fires have burned 3,500 acres of forest and 321 personnel are fighting....