{"id":117579,"date":"2025-09-03T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117579\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:27:07","slug":"communities-across-western-canada-face-smoke-warnings-due-to-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117579\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities across Western Canada face smoke warnings due to wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">VANCOUVER \u2014 Smoke from wildfires continues to cause worries across much of the West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In British Columbia, smoky haze enveloping Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley has triggered an air-quality warning that&#8217;s expected to last a few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Metro Vancouver region says residents should consider limiting outdoor activities due to elevated levels of fine particles in the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Smoke-related air-quality advisories also cover more than 30 areas of southern B.C., the Interior and the northeast, with Environment Canada saying most are expected to persist until Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Warnings are also in place across much of Alberta and a portion of northwest Saskatchewan, where Environment Canada suggests people limit their time outdoors and reschedule outdoor events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wildfires burning in the Northwest Territories recently forced hundreds of people from their homes in Fort Providence and Whati.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 Smoke from wildfires continues to cause worries across much of the West. In British Columbia, smoky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21406,903,49,48,14881,65673,65672,44,944],"class_list":{"0":"post-117579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-air-quality","9":"tag-british-columbia","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-environment-canada","13":"tag-fraser-valley","14":"tag-metro-vancouver","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-the-canadian-press"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}