The fires in Canada, more than 1,000 kilometers from New York, caused the sun in the Big Apple to have various shades, from increasingly dark orange to an ash color. The smell of smoke predominated in the environment, which covered the metropolis. The state issued a health alert about the air quality that affected a good part of the territory.
A haze of smoke hung over a wide swath of the northern United States from Canada, where hundreds of fires are raging, prompting warnings to spread from Minnesota to Massachusetts.
The fires were concentrated in the provinces of Nova Scotia and Ontario, where that haze covered the cities of Ottawa and Toronto, with warnings about the high level of environmental contamination.
Despite the distance, portions of this smoke drifted over parts of New York and Vemont states. The entire Big Apple was left under that alert, while the line of the horizon of Manhattan, the famous skyline, was covered by those gray clouds. Many neighbors wondered what was happening and on the terraces of the restaurants there was a strange sensation due to that effect of the smoke, as if it were close by and not so far away.
Smoke from the wildfires caused New York to have some of the worst air quality in the entire country, which will prevail for the rest of the week, CNBC reported. For its part, the AirNow website, a platform that details Americans what the condition is in each state, underlined that in the Big Apple there is a negative score of more than 150. The alert issued by the authorities is of red color, which considers the air unhealthy.
The alert was aimed primarily at people with heart or lung disease, older adults and children.
It is said that this Tuesday there were at least 400 sources of fire underway in Canada, which only encouraged an already active fire season, and it was expected that the situation would get even worse. In cities like Quebec, authorities advised keeping windows and doors closed.
