{"id":118222,"date":"2025-08-04T12:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118222\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:52:13","slug":"wildfire-smoke-continues-to-reduce-air-quality-across-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118222\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke continues to reduce air quality across Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wildfire smoke continues to reduce air quality across Maine<\/p>\n

An Air Quality Alert is in effect until 11 p.m. Monday<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 5:33 AM EDT Aug 4, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAn Air Quality Alert is in effect for many areas across Maine, including northern and southern parts of Oxford, Franklin, Somerset, and Cumberland counties, as well as York, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Waldo, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, and Knox counties. This alert also includes major cities and towns such as Portland, Lewiston, Augusta, Waterville, Bangor, Farmington, Rockland, and Biddeford.This alert also includes the majority of northern New England.The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued this alert due to elevated levels of particle pollution, which are expected to remain ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’ through Monday night.Those most at risk include children, the elderly, those with preexisting health conditions, and anyone engaging in strenuous outdoor work or exercise.The DEP advises limiting intense outdoor physical activity to reduce the risk of health issues. For more information, you can check local air quality updates or visit the Maine DEP website.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

An Air Quality Alert is in effect for many areas across Maine, including northern and southern parts of Oxford, Franklin, Somerset, and Cumberland counties, as well as York, Androscoggin, Kennebec, Waldo, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, and Knox counties. This alert also includes major cities and towns such as Portland, Lewiston, Augusta, Waterville, Bangor, Farmington, Rockland, and Biddeford.<\/p>\n

This alert also includes the majority of northern New England.<\/p>\n

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued this alert due to elevated levels of particle pollution, which are expected to remain ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’ through Monday night.<\/p>\n

Those most at risk include children, the elderly, those with preexisting health conditions, and anyone engaging in strenuous outdoor work or exercise.<\/p>\n

The DEP advises limiting intense outdoor physical activity to reduce the risk of health issues. <\/p>\n

For more information, you can check local air quality updates or visit the Maine DEP website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke continues to reduce air quality across Maine An Air Quality Alert is in effect until 11…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[12986,48824,22531,59618,41396,73918,46354,16089,746,73926,73924,10103,2741,73919,73920,73922,73921,23077,16776,73927,159,67,132,68,73925,73923,11003,44123],"class_list":{"0":"post-118222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-air-quality","9":"tag-air-quality-alert","10":"tag-alert","11":"tag-augusta","12":"tag-bangor","13":"tag-canada-wildfire","14":"tag-canadian-wildfire","15":"tag-dep","16":"tag-environment","17":"tag-farmington","18":"tag-kennebec","19":"tag-lewiston","20":"tag-maine","21":"tag-maine-department-of-environmental-protection-agency","22":"tag-maines-total-weather","23":"tag-monday-evening","24":"tag-nws-gray","25":"tag-portland","26":"tag-risk","27":"tag-sagadahoc","28":"tag-science","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-waldo","33":"tag-waterville","34":"tag-wildfire","35":"tag-wildfire-smoke"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114970594284385498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}