Fires in Canada Prompt Warnings About Bad Air
Northeastern states advised people with heart trouble or breathing problems to avoid the outdoors because of a haze hanging over the region from forest fires burning hundreds of miles away in Canada.
Winds pushed the smoke as far south as Washington, D.C., and from Michigan to Massachusetts over the weekend.
“It smelled like someone’s house was burning down,” said John Agee, a graduate student at the University at Albany in New York.
More than 80 fires were burning southeast of James Bay in Quebec, 200 to 400 miles north of the U.S. border. Most have been started by lightning since July 2.
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