Wildfire smoke drifts to Schuylkill County, creates vibrant sunset

KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - Wednesday evening's sunset, seen from Cemetery Road in Shenandoah Heights.

SHENANDOAH HEIGHTS – An eerie shot of this evening’s sunset, captured by our photographer along Cemetery Road in this West Mahanoy Township village.

The sun is a much brighter and vivid red than normal as the smoke from wildfires blazing in the western part of the country has drifted over east-central Pennsylvania. If you’ve noticed a largely hazy condition the past few days, that is why.

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