All of Minnesota is under a Unhealthy Air Quality Alert. The worst of it was over Central Minnesota and Saint Cloud this afternoon with visibility dropping to just over a mile at times.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has expanded the Air Quality Alert for fine particle pollution. The Air Quality Index (AQI) is expected to reach the Red or Unhealthy category through 6AM CDT on Friday 6/16.
Footage shot in a three parts. Part one covers the “Summer Time By George” free outdoor concert event at Lake George in downtown Saint Cloud.
At 1:56 it shows a wide aerial shot over the brown ground around a St Cloud water tower thick smoke and then a V.O. of photographer talking about the smoke
At 2:37 it continues with footage around St Cloud of B-Roll of landmarks and traffic in the thick smoke
Shot Description
00:00 – Lake George, Summer Time By George event welcoming everyone. Footage from the park and a aerial shot of the crowd with the St Cloud skyline in the background.
00:27 – Crowds starting to gather with lawn chairs at Lake George.
00:37 – The smoke filtered sun with a pan down to the crowd
01:04 – Crowd B-Roll with a family walking by the camera.
01:25 – That tent will keep the bugs out but won’t do much for the thick smoke.
01:37 – Someone walking around the lake
01:45 – A group of people going to the concert.
01:55 – Aerial shot of a water tower with heavy smoke / haze and brown grass from the extreme lack of rain over the last two months.
02:05 – V.O. from Neva Andersen talking about how thick the smoke is from the fires from Canada.
02:29 – Brown grass in the parks from the lack of rain.
02:37 – Tight shot of the sun trying to get through the thick smoke that was turning the sky orange.
02:48 _ American Flag standing almost still from the lack of wind that is helping the smoke to just sit over the middle of the State Of Minnesota.
02:27 – Several clips of traffic on Highway 23 with an eerie light from the sun with the dense thick smoke.
03:55 – Tight and wide shot of the Falcon National Bank building in the back ground and Lake George in the foreground with the dense smoke in the air.
SID: Neva Andersen Doug Kiesling
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