Smoke from Canadian wildfires reaches US, Minnesota under air quality alert

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Source: ABC News

May 12, 2024, 7:59 PM


With over 100 active wildfires burning in Canada, wildfire smoke has drifted across the border into the United States, prompting Minnesota officials to issue the state's first air quality alert of 2024 on Sunday.

Several of the string of Canadian wildfires have been labeled "out of control," according to officials, who placed 40 out of the 140 active fires in this category.

Most of the active wildfires, 91 to be exact, are in British Columbia and Alberta provinces.

In the U.S., wildfire smoke has reached states from Montana to Wisconsin but is especially heavy in Minnesota on Sunday. Minnesota's air quality alert was issued Sunday and will remain in place through Monday.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/International/smoke-canadian-wildfires-reaches-us-minnesota-air-quality/story?id=110149929

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1. Bad in Minneapolis

I have asthma and even inside with air conditioning and air filters, I'm wheezing.

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2. 185

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3. You need an air purifier with a HEPA filter

The bigger ones do make a huge difference (meaning not the little table top ones although I never tried those). Back when I was in an apartment, there had been a fire on my floor way down at the other end of the long hallway and the smoke and soot lingered, literally for a year (the air purifier knocked it out in hours and kept it pretty much clear in my unit).

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4. Thanks

May need to look into that.

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5. One of my sisters and her hubby have terrible allergies

and they keep a couple running year-round (livingroom and bedroom).

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6. I am in KCMO

and we got a lot of that smoke from Canada wildfires last year. In the spring we get smoke from farmers burning off their fields in MO and KS. The smoke from Canada is new for us.

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7. It is going to be a long summer.

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8. Poor Canada! It is horrible.

[Chi67]

9. Ugh!

Not again! The smoke will probably reach Chicago in a week or so too. This is awful.

[NickB79]

10. Another summer of wildfire smoke

Remember when summer skies weren't hazy and acrid? You could go to the lake and enjoy the summer instead of choking on smoke? I don't think my teenage daughter even remembers what that was like anymore.

As climate change kills the boreal forests, we're going to have a lot more of this in the years to come.