(Friday 04 August 2017)

Pilot Per Mikkelsen flew thursday from Kangerlussuaq to Aasiaat with their little private plane from Sondy Aero Club.

On the trip a natural fire was observed a little north of Nassuttooq.

Read: Smoke from natural fire in Sisimiut

"On the return trip around 19:00, we could see that the natural fires had developed a lot and there was a thick smoke of up to 6000 feet, he wrote to Sermitsiaq.AG.

With a northeast-eastern wind, Per Mikkelsen could see that the smoke lay all the way to the coast in a thick layer.