UPDATE FRIDAY NIGHT: The shelter-in-place alert for the City of Marinette issued this afternoon has been lifted. Changing wind direction has directed the smoke more to the east, over the Bay of Green Bay. People should avoid that area of the Menominee River and shoreline due to potential soot fallout until the fire is completely extinguished.
ORIGINAL UPDATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON:
The Marinette County Emergency Management Department is urging people who live or work downwind from the big Resolute Forest Products fire in Menominee to stay indoors and shelter in place.
The air quality is very low as a north wind brings plumes of smoke from the fire across the Menominee River. Multiple fire crews from Michigan and Wisconsin continue to battle that blaze, although it has been contained and controlled for hours. Marinette “shelter in place advisory” is posted below.
Photo credit: Melisa Ebesch, Bay Cities Radio
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