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Smoke? It's just the burning lake
By Times Staff
Published June 1, 2007
The smoke that hung over southern Pinellas and Hillsborough counties Thursday came from Lake Okeechobee. More than 39 square miles, including part of the parched lake bed, burned, which could explain why it smelled different from the smoke that wafted in from wildfires in North Florida a few weeks ago.
Dick Kamp, a hydrometeorological technician at the National Weather Service in Ruskin, said that at one point the smoke was thick enough to be seen on the station's radar. Okeechobee's water level fell to a record low of 8.94 feet Thursday. The old record of 8.97 feet was set in 2001 and tied on Wednesday.
[Last modified June 1, 2007, 06:57:32]
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by JB
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06/01/07 01:23 PM
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A story with just 2 paragraphs isn't much of a story.
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by Denise
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06/01/07 12:52 PM
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Finally! A local news source reporting on the fires. If people in news(tv, radio and print)didnt have a/c we would have seen this days ago. Yesterday was not the first smoke this week. Wildfires in California get coverage-why the silence on ours?
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by billy bob
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06/01/07 09:45 AM
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So you can write a story about a lake on fire with NO PICTURES??????
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