New York reports the worst air quality in the world as smoke creeps along the coast
Dangerous smoke from Canadian wildfires is now affecting more than 55 million people in the eastern United States and beyond, rendering New York City as the home of some of the world’s worst air quality by Wednesday afternoon.
The city’s air quality numbers soared past 400, a record-breaking number, according to the U. S. Air Quality Index, a program with the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA. The thick haze has grounded planes, halted school activities and the EPA is telling people to reschedule non-essential outdoor related activities and to wear N95 masks. Cloth masks will not prevent air particulates from wildfire smoke from entering the nose and mouth.
The smoke from the wildfires already has hit Midwestern states such as Minnesota and Wisconsin and is on its way as far south as South Carolina. The pall has also reached …