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The pull of the foul air to Northern California was significant enough that the Bay Area Air District issued an air quality advisory. According to AirNow, a federal air-quality measuring app that measures air quality in real time, the air quality at 8:30 a.m. through much of the region was only moderately healthy.
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota are already seeing air quality deteriorate because of smoke from the fires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Smoke from wildfires in Canada is making it harder to breathe in Ohio and several other states. Here's how long it will last and what else we know.
Oregon will soon receive $83 million in federal reimbursements for repairs to roadways that were damaged by massive wildfires, floods, ice storms and other weather-related emergencies. All seven of Oregon’s Democratic members of Congress announced Monday they have secured eight grants from the Federal Highway Administration’s emergency relief program,
Wildfires burning in Canada's oil-producing province of Alberta have affected more than 344,000 barrels per day of oil sands production, or about 7% of the country's overall crude oil output, according to Reuters calculations.
Premier Scott Moe says Saskatchewan's ability to fight a plague of wildfires across the province is reaching the breaking point. The premier was joined by officials from the Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency at a news conference in Prince Albert to update the current wildfire situation.