If you caught a whiff of campfire in parts of northeast Colorado on Friday and started eyeing your neighbor’s grill, you were in good company. A faint smoky smell and some light haze had folks from Greeley to the northern Front Range calling in reports of a possible fire. Crews checked it out but quickly realized the scent was riding in from the east, not coming from anything burning inside city limits.
According to 9News, National Weather Service forecasters and local fire departments traced the odor to wildfires burning in Nebraska. The Greeley Fire Department said it fielded many of the concerned calls but did not find any active fires within the city.
Where the smoke came from
Satellite-based smoke tracking shows plumes forming over…..