CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Padre Island neighbors are smelling smoke... but where is the fire? That's the question Nueces County ESD 2 Chief Weston Beseda was working to answer when we reached out to him Thursday afternoon.
Several residents took to the Padre Island Neighbors Facebook group to complain of a smelly, hazy scent around the Island and Flour Bluff areas.
But the origin of the foul odor appears to be a mystery.
"We smell it too, there are no active fires in our area.... There is currently no fires near our communities," read a Facebook post from the ESD.
The department couldn't find any official source of the haze but suggested it could be coming from an agricultural or controlled burn from far outside of our area.
"We looked at a map earlier and there aren't any major fires in South America but there appears to be one in Canada," said Beseda. "But that wouldn't come this way with the path of the wind."
"So essentially, we're not really sure, but there are currently no controlled burns or out of control burns for that matter in our county.
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