The Lateral West fire burning in the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia blanketed the beaches of North Carolina with thick smoke on August 10, 2011.
These detailed images from August 15 show a large, hard-to-access wildfire burning in Virginia’s Great Dismal Swamp. Firefighters hoped that rain from Hurricane Irene would slow the fire.
Thick smoke from two large fires in North Carolina and Virginia traveled up the East Coast in mid-June 2008, affecting air quality in numerous cities and towns.