A line of fires stretched across the plains west of Dallas-Forth Worth on April 9, 2009, and strong winds were driving smoke plumes from the fires toward the cities.
In Manitoba, Canada, north of Lake Winnipeg, several massive fires were burning on July 23, 2007. Thick plumes of smoke spread east from the forest fires. In previous days, smoke from fires degraded the air quality enough that people in communities near Southern Indian Lake (hidden by smoke to the west of Gauer Lake) had to evacuate.
Though fires across Russia appeared to be less intense than previously, these photo-like images show thick smoke rising from two regions in western Russia on August 15, 2010.