Georgia swamp fire smoke casts haze over southeast Alabama

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - Smoke blown from a swamp fire more than 300 miles away in Georgia hung over southeastern and south central Alabama Monday. <br> <br> The haze covered skies from the Alabama-Florida border north to Montgomery. <br> <br> The smoke comes from a fire in the Okefenokee swamp in Georgia that has burned since last Tuesday when a lightning strike inflamed dry wood. <br> <br> David Frederick, director of the fire division for the Alabama Forestry Commission, said anyone with respiratory problems should state indoors until the smoke gets blown away, probably Tuesday. <br> <br> The blaze spread over more than ten-thousand acres during the weekend. <br> <br> The Forestry Commission issued a fire alert for the Southeast region of Alabama Monday. <br> <br> The smoke moved to Alabama because of an unusual weather pattern that&#39;s blowing wind from east to west.