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New York City is 'code red' for unhealthy air quality as smoke from Canadian wildfires pour across the Northeast sparking warning for residents with breathing issues to stay indoors.
The National Weather Service has issued an air quality alert on Tuesday for Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, as well as Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, and Putnam counties, through midnight.
The unhealthy air seeping through the city is due to smoke that originated from a fire last week in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia that has affected the quality levels from New York City to Washington, DC.
A 'Red Flag' warning was issued for parts of New Jersey.
As of Tuesday morning, more than 160 forest fires were still burning in Quebec, including at least 114 that are out of control. The recent wildfires have been described by Canadian federal officials as among one of Canada's worst fire seasons ever.
A photo of the smoky skies have that blanketed New York City. An air quality alert was issued on Tuesday by the National Weather Service for Manhattan, the five boroughs, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Orange, and Putnam counties, through midnight
A thick haze is seen over the Brooklyn Bridge this week due to the Canadian wildfires. The air quality in the city's five borough are growing more severe and have reached levels in the 150s, as per Air Now, a US government platform that keeps track of air quality based on a system- zero considered the healthiest air and 500 the unhealthiest
A firefighter is pictured extinguishing a forest fire in Quebec on Sunday. There have been more than 480 wilderness firefighters on the ground battling the fires that have destroyed acres of land, federal officials have described the wildnerness fires as among the worst fire seasons Canada has seen
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