The cooling temperatures and increased relative humidity have assisted fire suppression efforts across the state but the U.S. Forest Service AirFire Research Team is still providing smoke outlook reports for concerned populations. The current outlook for Utah states that smoke generated from the Pole Creek, Bald Mountain, and Mirror Lake Complex Fires is “expected to transport along the wind direction toward areas east and south of the fires, including the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, Price, Roosevelt, and Vernal areas.” The transported smoke is expected to be at its highest levels during the morning inversion and is not expected to put pollution levels above Moderate levels. The visible smoke column concerning western Duchesne County citizens this week was reported as from the Mirror Lake Complex Fire in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
