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Northern Minnesota wildfire grows, putting valuable infrastructure at risk

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Public Discourse · Bluesky · this story as of 8d ago
635 distinct posts / 48h, matching Minnesota 494 Northern 283
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8d ago CHICAGO - The National Weather Service expects wildfire smoke to leave northern Illinois sometime Fr... +2.5
8d ago Ppl back East, please calm down about poor air quality due to wildfires. It happens where I live multiple times a year. You'll be fine. I've lived through it. -Signed a 25 year California resident… -1.5
8d ago RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulbeckwith/116931400188034399 #FYI #PaulBeckwith #atmosphere #air #airQuality #wildfire #wildfires #particulateMatter #US #USA #Canada #HealthEffect #climatechange … -2.0
8d ago Hmm, Canada jump in when we had our Wildfires in Cali going full bore, & now Canada is Burning & has wildfires all over the place. When are we going to help out our Northern neighbor? ×2 +2.0
8d ago My general response to "Canadian wildfires" has been "there are a lot of people working hard in northern Minnesota who would disagree with that name" ×2 +2.0
8d ago We've got a bunch in northern MN also. Fun how places that have lots of "wild" tend to have wildfires... -2.0
8d ago Calling for a huge deployment of Customs and Border Patrol agents at the northern border to prevent Canadian wildfire smoke from illegally crossing the border into the US. -6.0
8d ago Wildfire smoke, which is increasing in the Northern Hemisphere as the climate warms, attacks nearly every system in the body. -5.0
8d ago The National Weather Service expects wildfire smoke to leave northern Illinois sometime Friday afternoon. +4.0
8d ago growing up is realizing coastal CA will likely have less severe/less frequent wildfire smoke than most of the northern/northeastern united states due to wind patterns, geography, and the relative p… +1.0
8d ago Air is cooler now Under a full sun pale in Northern wildfire haze. +0.5
8d ago NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS SATURDAY FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST MINNESOTA AND NORTH-CENTRAL MINNESOTA for Carlton/South St. Louis, Central St. Louis, Koochiching, North Cass, North Itasca,… ×2 -1.0
8d ago Smoke from wildfires expected to begin dissipating late this morning across northern Indiana https://www.europesays.com/dk/131187/ A view of the National Weather Service in Syracuse. By Dan Spald… +1.5
8d ago Smoke drifting south from wildfires burning across northern Minnesota and parts of Canada pushed air quality in the Madison area into dangerous levels Thursday, prompting the Wisconsin Department o… ×2 -5.0
8d ago Mets-Phillies Start Time Moved and MLS Game Postponed Due to Wildfire Smoke Heavy, pungent wildfire smoke originating from Canada and northern Minnesota severely disrupted professional sports sche… ×2 -3.0
8d ago The Canadian wildfire smoke has reached northern Maryland, and people are driving funny, because it's pretty distracting to be able to /see/ the air. -2.5
8d ago Last summer’s epicentre of wildfires was in northern Saskatchewan & northern Manitoba. The jet stream carried the smoke into Michigan, prompting this same bunch to complain. As if we can prevent th… ×2 -2.0
8d ago 'Despite the administration’s insistence that addressing climate change is a “scam,” the extreme weather caused by climate change has sparked more than 800 wildfires in Canada and at least a dozen … ×2 -7.0
8d ago 🧵As smoke from wildfires burning in northern Ontario continues to spread across the province & into large parts of the U.S. prompting sharp criticism from some US lawmakers. vancouver.citynews.ca/… -3.5
8d ago Wildfires continue to race across Canada and the smoke is drifting into the northern United States. MLB and MLS have made adjustments to games. -2.0
8d ago Smoke from wildfires scorching eastern Canada and northern Minnesota dirtied the air in new parts of the U.S. on Friday morning. Use our tracker to check the air quality where you live. trib.al/Abd… ×2 -2.0
8d ago Trump also thought Niagra falls was a water tap that he could put the CA wildfire out with. Then he chose to open a northern CA water reserve that in no way helped the wildfires. No disrespect but … -5.5
8d ago I'm Canadian and live in Northern Ontario. As of today, THERE ARE NO REPORTS of American water bombers in the province. We help when asked. Where are they when we need them? There are 1,100 wil… -3.8
8d ago It's interesting that there have been wildfire smoke plumes reaching the northern US before, but I think this is the first one since Trump's return to the White House -- and the reaction by some US… -1.5
8d ago Multiple rounds of #thunderstorms impacted the PNW between Wednesday night and Thursday night causing lightning strikes to ignite new #wildfires particularly in northern Oregon. Downslope winds com… -3.0
8d ago Someone needs to wake up these clowns to the reality that #🇨🇦 isn't torching northern Ontario communities and wrapping Toronto in smog just to annoy Americans. And that #climate collapse --and #wil… -5.0
8d ago Forecasters expect another plume of wildfire smoke to spread into northern Illinois late Saturday and Sunday behind a cold front, potentially leading to another stretch of poor air quality ×5 -2.0
8d ago Yeah. Or maybe boreal wildfires, because so many wildfires connected to climate change are happening in the sub-arctic (boreal) forests that ring the northern hemisphere along the arctic circle. T… -3.0
8d ago July 12: Canadian helicopter pilot Nicholas Dale died while fighting wildfires in Colorado. Dale was 56. July 15: four Republicans from Michigan released a statement titled “Canada’s Apologies Won… ×2 -7.5
8d ago Wildfire smoke could leave northern Illinois by Friday afternoon as pollutant levels drop ×5 +4.0

Articles in Story

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The colored bar shows position on the scale. Emotion badge uses Plutchik's 8 primary emotions: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, anticipation.
T3 Firefighters give update on wildfires burning in Northern Minnesota wildfire_response fox21online.com informative, cautious, steady
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T3 Northern Minnesota wildfire grows, putting valuable infrastructure at risk wildfire_damage twincities.com threatening, precarious, alarming
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T3 Enhanced burning restrictions to begin due to worsening fire conditions ⚖ Contested wildfire_prevention elyecho.com restricted, cautious, prepared
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T3 MN wildfires: DNR issuing new burning restrictions in northern MN ⚖ Contested wildfire_prevention fox9.com proactive, cautious, protective
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T3 Minnesota DNR adds Class IV burning restrictions in 4 counties ⚖ Contested wildfire_prevention wdio.com protective, cautious, proactive
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