Having a bonfire is one of those things that makes late summer and fall in Minnesota so great. But is that firepit in your backyard legal here in Rochester?
Are you smelling smoke? Seeing a haze? That is the smoke from the Canadian wildfires in the air moving through Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
As of Saturday morning at the time of publication of this article, there were over 240 key locations tagged on this map, over 50 closed streets, and over 68 fires.