Air quality alerts spread across Minnesota as fires rage, sending smoke south

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Gov. Tim Walz is extending the peacetime emergency for wildfires in and around the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for 30 more days. The extension allows the state to continue assisting communities impacted by wildfires in northern Minnesota.

As many as 17 fires continue burning in the region. Paddlers have been evacuating, some in dramatic fashion from their campsites in the one million acre wilderness.

Covering it all is MPR's Dan Kraker. He joined MPR News host Nina Moini to talk about it along with Ryan Kari, owner of Ely Outdoors Company, who talked about the strain of the fires on his business.

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Camps are canceling events, trails have closed and evacuations of the area continue.

MPR News reporter, outfitter on experience in Ely as wildfires blaze on

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