That’s the most important.”īut, she noted, the real solution will be a good dose of rain. Manon Cyr, mayor of the evacuated town of Chibougamau, said she advised residents to be “Zen and patient. He said there have been no reports of injuries, deaths or home damage so far from the fires, but it remained unclear Thursday when more than 12,000 evacuees from various communities would be able to return. Over a third are in Quebec, where Public Safety Minister François Bonnardel said no rain is expected until next week and temperatures are predicted to rise. “The West has always burned, as has Canada, but what’s important now is that we’re getting these massive amounts of smoke in a very populated region, so many, many people are getting affected,” said Loretta Mickley, the co-leader of Harvard University’s Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group.įueled by an unusually dry and warm period in spring, the Canadian fire season that is just getting started could well become the worst on record. So what’s the big deal about the smoke out East? Local officials urged people to stay indoors as much as possible and wear face masks when they venture out.
Environmental Protection Agency’s air-pollution scale.
The fires sent plumes of fine particulate matter as far away as North Carolina and northern Europe and parked clumps of air rated unhealthy or worse over the heavily populated Eastern Seaboard.Īt points this week, air quality in places including New York, the nation’s most populous city, nearly hit the top of the U.S. The conditions sent asthma sufferers to hospitals, delayed flights, postponed ballgames and even pushed back a White House Pride Month celebration. Millions of residents could see that for themselves Thursday. “This is something that we, as the eastern side of the country, need to take quite seriously.” “This is kind of an astounding event” but likely to become more common amid global warming, said Justin Mankin, a Dartmouth College geography professor and climate scientist. East Coast, but it was a reminder of conditions routinely troubling the country’s West - and a wake-up call about the future, scientists say. NEW YORK (AP) - Images of smoke obscuring the New York skyline and the Washington Monument this week have given the world a new picture of the perils of wildfire, far from where blazes regularly turn skies into hazardous haze.Ī third day of unhealthy air from Canadian wildfires may have been an unnerving novelty for millions of people on the U.S. Price in New York City contributed reporting.By JENNIFER PELTZ and ROB GILLIES (Associated Press) The White House moved two other events that were on Biden’s schedule to Tuesday - a meeting with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and a reception for chiefs of mission at the White House.Īssociated Press writer Michelle L.
In fact, the White House said Biden was not placed under anesthesia for the procedure, which meant there was no need to invoke the 25th Amendment and have Vice President Kamala Harris serve as acting president.īiden had been scheduled to appear at College Athlete Day on the South Lawn at the White House, which welcomes NCAA champions from various men’s and women’s sports from the 2022-23 season. Taking some comedic license, the first lady joked that the president was under anesthesia. “I had never seen it before.”Īt another point, she asked the crowd about their concerns and promised to take them back to her husband. “Did you know there’s a dentist’s office in the bottom of the White House?” Biden asked the donors. The first lady also expressed a bit of surprise that doctors were able to care for the president without him leaving the White House. “Which of course meant, guess what? I was up all night in pain - with a different kind of pain.”
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