New York Governor Kathy Hochul gave an air quality update after parts of the state was blanketed with smoke from Canadian wildfires that drifted south and hovered over a large swath of the US
In Washington, traffic was light and trains less crowded than usual as many companies told employees to work from home. Some non-essential city services were suspended, including parks and recreation, road construction and waste collection.
Government data showed air quality readings above the "hazardous" level in Washington on Thursday morning. The U.S. National Weather Service extended air quality alerts from New England to South Carolina, as well as parts of the Midwest, including Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. Still, though a smell of burning wood lingered, the skies were beginning to brighten on Thursday afternoon. After two days in which schools called off outdoor activities, including sports practices and recess, New York's public school system announced that its more than 1 million students would shift to remote learning on Friday.
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