Tony Verdal, left, of Hayden Lake, and Dave Gerzina of Coeur d’Alene work to clean up manhole covers in a Front Avenue intersection. Verdal and Gerzina were among those who worked in the heavy smoke Tuesday following an air-quality advisory restricting outdoor activities and recommending heavy work be avoided. “It’s not bugging me,” Gerzina said of the smoke.
September 6, 2017
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September 6, 2017 1 a.m.
A SMOKY START
Playgrounds were empty on the first day of school in North Idaho — except for the hovering clouds of wildfire smoke.