A 16,000 acre forest fire broke out in Ely, Minnesota Monday.
/ Courtesy: Pioneer Press
Mid-Michigan residents are smelling smoke stemming from a forest fire in Minnesota.
Pioneer Press, a Minnesota media outlet, says firefighters from as far away as Nevada were battling the blazes near the Superior National Forest. Below is a map showing how far the smell of smoke has traveled from its original point in Minnesota to the NBC25 viewing area.
Evacuations were planned near the forest fire Monday night.
Midland Dispatch says the winds from the northwest carried the smell of the fire through Wisconsin and into the Mid-Michigan area. Local residents do not face any immediate danger because of the forest fire.
