Smoke cloaks Coeur d’Alene sky
Jason Reddick tosses a baseball near City Beach in Coeur d'Alene amid smoke coming from a wildfire north of Bonners Ferry.
RAY ERKU/PRESS
Residents of the Coeur d’Alene area woke up Thursday morning to the distinct scent of burning timber. A thin cloak of smoke also temporarily enveloped the sky above the city’s main lake and its surrounding mountains.
According to Coeur d’Alene Fire Marshal Craig Etherton and the National Weather Service in Spokane, recent wildfires north in Boundary County had pushed smoke south toward Kootenai County.
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