Smoke from fires burning in Washington state drifted north over the weekend, blanketing several southern B-C communities in a thick haze. The smoke has prompted air-quality alerts and reduced visibility, but fire information officer Kevin Skrepnek says it has a silver lining, too. (B-C crews are now in Washington state to help fight a 192-square-kilometre fire burning about five kilometres south of the border.)

Date: 2015-08-24
Placeline: KAMLOOPS, British Columbia.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 17 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << how to smoke has been so dense it's actually, some of the fire activity were seeing particularly in southern BC the smoke almost takes on the same quality to cloud cover wood so it is absorbing some of the heat do you know that normally would be coming out of the ground from the Sun. The tracking little bit of humidity closer to the ground >>

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