New Yorkers are waking up to Air Quality Alerts from the Canadian wildfires once again this morning. JohnBDias is live in Long Island City with the latest on how to prepare for the day ahead.
Officials predict the area will likely see impacts of smoke through Friday, and they say to still be careful this weekend before the 4th of July.
"The smoke is out there. If you're watching any of the forecasting nationally, the smoke has been sitting in place and dissipating quite slowly. And we expect that plume to move into the state a bit more quickly than it moves out of it," New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said Wednesday
The DEC commissioner also warned there will likely be unhealthy spikes in the air quality Thursday, but they will be short lived. Emergency cellphone alerts will be used to warn New Yorker if the Air Quality Index exceeds the 200 threshold for"very unhealthy" and is sustained for longer than an hour. Meanwhile, the governor sent a third crew of forest rangers to Canada to help fight the fires. The state will also be providing hundreds of thousands of face masks at major transit hubs.
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