Wildfires impact Western Carolina students

By Liz Schlemmer

A wildfire burns on Chestnut Knob near Blowing Rock, NC Nov. 18. (NC Forest Service)
A wildfire burns on Chestnut Knob near Blowing Rock, N.C. Nov. 18. (NC Forest Service)

This week, wildfires have been sweeping across the foothills of western North Carolina. Yesterday,we could see and smell the smoke in Chapel Hill … about 150 miles from the nearest fire.

We spoke with Devin Lawless, a graduate student at Western Carolina University, about how it looks in his part of the state.

 

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