LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Smoke from a number of wildland fires in Southern Oregon and across the west is creating hazy conditions over Northern California, including Lake County.
The National Weather Service offices in Sacramento and Medford reported that the Douglas Fire Complex north of Grants Pass, Ore., is sending large amounts of haze and smoke south.
Fire officials said the Douglas Complex has been burning since last Friday, after lightning ignited 54 fires, most of them located in the Cow Creek Canyon west of Glendale.
As of Sunday night, the complex had burned 13,400 acres and led to home evacuations near Glendale, according to fire officials.
Near the Douglas Complex are other large fires, including the 700-acre Labrador Fire and the Whiskey Complex near Tiller, Ore., reported to be 1,649 acres Sunday night.
The fires are sending up a massive smoke plume, and satellite images from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's show the complex's smoke traveling down over Northern California.
Also moving west across Northern California and the North Coast is smoke from wildfires in Idaho and Montana, according to fire tracking data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Last summer, a large wildland fire in Idaho had been responsible for a smoky haze over Lake County, as Lake County News has reported.
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