Where there’s fire, there’s smoke: Public safety lesson for Eastern US
by Sarah Matusek
Jun 08, 2023
3 minutes
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has shrouded the New York City skyline in a Halloween haze. The bitter air has reached the Great Lakes region of the United States and the mid-Atlantic, prompting public health warnings.
New York City notched its worst-on-record air pollution levels, exceeding what San Francisco experienced during 2018 wildfires in California. And air was deemed “very unhealthy” in the nation’s capital Thursday.
The severity of the smoke has startled communities living far from the fire-prone North American West, raising questions around local
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