{"id":114362,"date":"2023-05-22T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/smoke-from-raging-canadian-wildfires-triggers-air-quality-alerts-in-us-states\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T05:00:58","slug":"smoke-from-raging-canadian-wildfires-triggers-air-quality-alerts-in-us-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/smoke-from-raging-canadian-wildfires-triggers-air-quality-alerts-in-us-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke from raging Canadian wildfires triggers air quality alerts in US states"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114362\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nMay long weekend is one of the busiest times for human-caused wildfires. Source &#8211; Alberta Wildfire<br \/>\nSmoke from dozens of raging wildfires in western Canada has drifted south into the central U.S., triggering air quality alerts. Air quality alerts have been posted as of early Friday across several states, including Nebraska, Washington, Montana, and Wisconsin, with a special weather statement about air quality in Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado\u2019s Department of Public Health and Environment put out alerts and advisories for Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon, covering most of the eastern part of the state. \u201cPeople with heart or lung disease, older adults, and children should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion; everyone else should reduce prolonged or heavy exertion,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Along parts of the Front Range, the air quality index reached 168 on Saturday, the department said. A reading between 151 and 200 indicates unhealthy conditions that can affect sensitive groups as well as some members of the general public. The US Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Air Quality Index indicated parts of the Rockies, the Great Plains, and the Midwest, including the Nebraska Panhandle and northeast corner of the state, had \u201cvery unhealthy\u201d air quality early Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Alberta firefighters are hoping that the cooler temperatures and showers forecast in the coming days will materialize. Forecasters were tracking a front likely to move into the province on Sunday that should bring much-needed relief, including humidity and even rain, Christie Tucker, information unit manager at Alberta Wildfire, said at a Saturday briefing. \u201cWhat we\u2019d like to see is a long-steady rain that will soak into the forest and into the ground,\u201d Tucker said. \u201cThat will help us more than a short burst that would bring lightning and could spark a new wildfire.\u201d This year, Alberta Wildfire responded to 496 wildfires burning more than 842,000 hectares, compared with just 459 hectares in 2022. \u201cThis year\u2019s total is nearly 2,000 times last year,\u201d Tucker said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/smoke-from-raging-canadian-wildfires-triggers-air-quality-alerts-in-us-states\/article#ixzz82Mscplx2\">DJ<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/107389\/\">Smoke from raging Canadian wildfires triggers air quality alerts in US states<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[5721,3386,1544,575,9034,574,2657],"class_list":["post-114362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-quality","tag-alert","tag-canada","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-smoke","tag-us","tag-wildfire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}