“Mars or Manhattan?” wrote one user on Twitter and posted a photo of the skyline including the Empire State Building. New York State Governor Kathy Hochul called it an “emergency crisis”, as reported by the “New York Times”. The condition could persist for several days.
Hochul announced that New York State will provide one million N95 masks to facilities across the state. New Yorkers have been urged to stay indoors and close windows as much as possible. All outdoor activities in schools and kindergartens have been canceled, and many other outdoor events have also been canceled.
New York and parts of the US states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania are shrouded in thick smoke. The smoke is coming from Canada, where severe forest fires are currently raging.
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Meanwhile, New York had the highest level of air pollution: ‘Dangerous’ – according to the official Airnow.gov website, all residents of the metropolis of eight million should stay indoors and reduce their physical activity.
According to the specialized site IQAir, New York was the city with the worst air quality in the world. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the air quality in many places was “unhealthy” or even “very unhealthy”. The agency’s air quality index has occasionally shown values above 400 for New York, Syracuse and the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania. A value of 50 or less is considered good, anything over 300 is considered harmful.
Numerous fires have been raging in western Canada and now also in the northeast of the country for weeks. In the southeastern province of Nova Scotia, the situation has improved somewhat recently.
Forest fires have been ravaging eastern Canada for weeks.
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