{"id":94988,"date":"2025-07-26T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94988\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:46:13","slug":"ny-issues-air-alert-as-wildfire-smoke-spreads-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94988\/","title":{"rendered":"NY issues air alert as wildfire smoke spreads from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York was hit with an <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/new-york-air-quality-alert-due-to-canada-wildfire-smoke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">air quality alert<\/a> Saturday as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted across the state.<\/p>\n<p>The warning, issued by the state\u2019s Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Health, covers the five boroughs, Long Island, the Lower and Upper Hudson Valley and the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p>Hazy skies blanketed New York on Saturday as wildfire smoke from Canada triggered an air quality alert across the state. Ron Adar \/ M10s \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Officials advised New Yorkers to stay indoors and skip strenuous outdoor activity.<\/p>\n<p>Pollution from fine particulate matter \u2014 PM2.5 \u2014 is expected to push the Air Quality Index over 100, hitting levels considered unhealthy for sensitive groups, including children, older adults and people with heart or lung conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Officials warned vulnerable New Yorkers to stay indoors as fine particle pollution reached unhealthy levels. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The tiny particles can cause eye, nose and throat irritation, along with coughing, sneezing and shortness of breath. They can also worsen asthma and heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>The alert is expected to remain in effect until Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest smoke surge to cloud city skies this year. An alert was also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/04\/us-news\/nyc-should-brace-for-smoke-from-canadian-wildfires-but-it-wont-affect-residents-how-you-think-expert-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued in early June<\/a>, when ozone pollution and wildfire haze from Canada triggered warnings across the tri-state.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires drifted south, clouding skies from the Adirondacks to the Big Apple. Robert Sabo for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>As of July 23, <a href=\"https:\/\/cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca\/report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada has seen<\/a> 3,345 fires in 2025 \u2014 scorching over 14 million acres, more than double the 10-year average. More than 50 remain out of control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York was hit with an air quality alert Saturday as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[2529,5229,2147,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,23492,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5609],"class_list":{"0":"post-94988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-air","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-smoke","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-wildfires"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114921497239900595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94988","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=94988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}