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The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says
air pollution briefly reached unhealthy levels near a raging forest
fire in northern Minnesota.


      Between midnight and 8 a.m. Friday, an air-monitoring station
near Ely measured fine particle pollution at levels
considered very unhealthy.


      But the MPCA says pollution levels at the monitor had dropped
below levels of health concern as of 10 a.m. Friday.


      The agency says the morning peak in air pollution confirms that
smoke from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area fire has the potential to
reach very unhealthy levels. The MPCA is urging people to take
precautions if they find smoke in their area.

      Pollution monitors near Duluth, Finland, Grand Portage, Grand
Marais and Tofte as well as Thunder Bay, Ontario, show pollution
below levels of health concern.

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Air pollution briefly reached unhealthy levels near the raging forest fire in northern Minnesota.

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