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Fire officials tweeted earlier today that masks would be available free at local stations.
The rest of the state, including New York City and Long Island, was forecast to be "unhealthy for sensitive groups."įor those in need of N95-style masks, Hochul said, hundreds of thousands have been made available. "I encourage all New Yorkers to stay informed about the latest updates and take the necessary precautions to protect yourselves and your loved ones," Hochul added.Īir across western and central New York, as well as the eastern Lake Ontario region, was forecast to be "unhealthy," her office said in a news release. "We’re activating emergency cell phone alerts to ensure New Yorkers have the latest information and are continuing to coordinate with local counties to monitor conditions and distribute masks. "With smoke from the Canadian wildfires once again impacting air quality throughout our state this week, we’re urging New Yorkers to remain vigilant," she said in a statement.
Kathy Hochul expanded the air quality health advisory today to include the entire state as she announced that her office will use, for the first time, emergency cellphone alerts to inform residents if the air quality index passes the threshold for "very unhealthy" air for more than an hour. It is one of the poorest parts of the city. In the U.S., the smoke is worsening air quality issues for poor and Black communities that already are more likely to live near polluting plants, and in rental housing with mold and other triggers.ĭetroit’s southwest side is home to a number of sprawling refineries and manufacturing plants. A wider circle of unhealthy air spread into St. Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland and Pittsburgh all have “very unhealthy” air. The Environmental Protection Agency’s site showed Detroit in the “hazardous” range. “And while this wildfire smoke allows, unfortunately, many people to feel this burden, this is a burden that far too long communities have faced day in and day out.” “Many communities face this way too often,” said Riley, who is Black. “The more breaths you’re taking, you’re inhaling, literally, a fire, camp smoke, into your lungs,” said Darren Riley, who was diagnosed with asthma in 2018, a few years after he arrived in Detroit. today, leading the Environmental Protection Agency to warn that “everyone should stay indoors.” Detroit, a mostly Black city with a poverty rate of about 30%, had the worst air quality in the U.S. The impacts are particularly hard on poor and minority communities that are more likely to live near polluting plants and have higher rates of asthma. from Minnesota to Pennsylvania and Kentucky today, prompting warnings to stay inside and aggravating health risks for people already suffering from industrial pollution. “But this is heat like we’ve not seen here before.”ĭETROIT - Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U.S. “What we’ve heard so many times in these nine deaths I’ve seen this week is ‘Well, he knew it was hot and he was going to get the air conditioner fixed’ or ‘Oh no, he says he’s been through this many times he said he was going to be OK,’” she said. Stern warned residents at Monday’s meeting to protect themselves and to check on elderly relatives and neighbors. The temperature in Laredo was 105 degrees with a heat index of 110 degrees as of 6:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service. NBC News was unable to immediately reach the medical examiner’s office after business hours. The Associated Press, citing Stern, today reported two additional deaths in Webb County, which is on the U.S.-Mexico border.
“These are unprecedented temperatures here.”
And I think our county was caught a little off guard,” Dr. Laredo knows heat, Webb County knows heat. The blistering heat in Webb County, Texas, has led to the deaths of at least nine people in eight days, the medical examiner said at a county government meeting Monday.
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