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Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom.

This is Seattle now. I'm Patricia Murphy with a roundup of today's top stories. It's Tuesday, August 12th.

My gosh, it is hot outside. An excessive heat warning will remain in effect until 10 o'clock tonight. The National Weather Service says C-TAC is not only 10-plus degrees warmer than

normal for mid-August, but today is close to the all-time hottest temperature ever recorded on

this date. It's all part of a trend of hotter summers in the Northwest. It will be mercifully

cooler tomorrow. Expect temperatures in the upper 70s.

Heavy smoke from the bear gulch fire near Hood Canal is making it unhealthy to breathe in nearby communities, including Hood Sport and Skokomish. Tom Strong is CEO of the Skokomish tribe.

Oh, it's terrible. A smoke just has kind of settled across the land, and it's been like that now

for a couple of days in a row. It had been intermittent before, but the last several days here

have been a struggle. Skokomish officials distributed air purifiers to tribal elders at the

tribe's annual first salmon ceremony on Saturday, 700 firefighters are working on the

Bear Gulch fire. They've been wrapping historic buildings at the staircase area of Olympic National

Park in aluminum fiberglass foil. Fire officials say there have been no injuries and no buildings

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