Georgia swamp fire smoke casts haze over southeast Alabama
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Posted 6:52PM on Monday 6th May 2002 ( 23 years ago )
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - Smoke blown from a swamp fire more than 300 miles away in Georgia hung over southeastern and south central Alabama Monday. <br>
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The haze covered skies from the Alabama-Florida border north to Montgomery. <br>
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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>
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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>
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The blaze spread over more than ten-thousand acres during the weekend. <br>
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The Forestry Commission issued a fire alert for the Southeast region of Alabama Monday. <br>
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The smoke moved to Alabama because of an unusual weather pattern that's blowing wind from east to west.
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