Skies across the Northeast are hazy this week, and air quality alerts have been issued for multiple cities.
for nine counties across the state. The department advised that “people in sensitive groups should reduce prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion, take more breaks, do less intense activities, follow asthma action plans, and keep quick relief medicine handy. Watch for symptoms such as coughing or shortness of breath.”The department said that air quality should improve by the end of this week.
“Wildfire smoke can travel really far and it can linger in the air for weeks at a time, so even if you can’t see the smoke in your area, the particulate matter and the level of air quality go down, so people have to take precautions to protect their lung health,” Michelle Donaldson, the communications director for the Lung Association of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, toldMultiple fires have raged across Eastern Canada this month, straining emergency response teams.
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