Jackson said Madison, Wisconsin, as well as Pittsburgh and Columbus, Ohio, are experiencing dangerous levels of air pollution Thursday, and numbers on the Air Quality Index scale are hovering around 200, or "very unhealthy."Įntire states, including New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Vermont were blanketed by the warnings Thursday, according to the weather service. Cities in over a dozen states from Duluth, Minnesota, to Portland, Maine, and as far south as Atlanta issued Code Orange air quality alerts or worse Thursday, according to the weather service. More than 120 million residents across the Midwest and East Coast were under air quality alerts Thursday, AccuWeather said. Cities in over a dozen states have issued air quality alerts Brad Gable, an emergency medicine physician for OhioHealth. “With degree to which we’re seeing pollutants in the air, people who wouldn’t otherwise have symptoms start having more symptoms," said Dr. Symptoms of respiratory illness can be caused by small particles in wildfire smoke and polluted air, such as irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat shortness of breath coughing and chest tightness. "If there’s any north component to the wind, there’s a chance it’ll be smoky." "Until the fires are out, there’s a risk," Jackson told the Associated Press. Health officials advised people to limit outdoor activities and prevent smoke from getting indoors by closing windows or running central air conditioning with high-rated filters. She’s going to stay indoors until the air gets better and keep walks short to protect herself and her dog.Įxperts warned that healthy people are also at risk of getting sick when the Air Quality Index reaches an unhealthy level. Powlette wasn’t wearing a mask when she went out with her dog, but when she had to go back out again later in the day, she put one on. Powlette is the president of her condo association and said they are keeping the shared pool closed Thursday. I think this seems to me was worse than last time,” Powlette said. “I felt a little scratchiness in my throat, too, which didn't happen the last time, a couple of weeks back when we had this bad air quality. "I saw more people with masks on today than usual."Ī 10-minute walk with her dog, Paige, was all it took for Renee Powlette, who works in IT and also lives in Arlington, to get a headache. ![]() "It smelled kind of like a chemical barbecue," Stein told USA TODAY. Stein has asthma, and she put on an N95 mask to protect herself She was planning to go for a walk outside afterward but decided against it because just the walk to her car left her coughing from the smoke. Sheryl Stein, a writer in Arlington, Virginia, went out Thursday morning to exercise at her local community center. In some areas, authorities discouraged people from exercising outside over concerns the pollution could damage their breathing, especially if they have asthma. Washington, Chicago, Detroit among cities with worst air quality in the worldĪs of Thursday morning, the Washington, D.C., area, Chicago and Detroit were among the cities with the worst air quality in the world, according to IQ Air's Air Quality Index. The Canadian wildfires have burned a larger area than the state of Maine. "Some places are having a repeat of yesterday, some are worse than yesterday," Jackson said, adding that the smoke moved into cities like Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., starting Wednesday afternoon. ![]() The federal government tracks and publishes searchable real-time results. The unhealthy air shifted slightly south since Wednesday, and more parts of the country are being affected, National Weather Service meteorologist Bryan Jackson told USA TODAY. ![]() cities on Thursday − from the Midwest to the Northeast to the mid-Atlantic to the Southeast − leading to perilous air quality for millions and prompting warnings to limit outdoor time. − Smoke from wildfires raging in Canada engulfed more U.S.
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