{"id":41322,"date":"2025-08-02T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41322\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T07:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T07:43:13","slug":"air-quality-warnings-issued-as-manitoba-northwestern-ontario-battle-wildfire-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/41322\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality warnings issued as\u00a0Manitoba, northwestern Ontario battle wildfire smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air quality warnings are in effect for\u00a0Manitoba\u00a0as wildfire smoke continues to blanket much of the province.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada says Winnipeg and the city of Flin Flon in the province\u2019s northwest are expected to see air quality health index ratings of over 10.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also says Brandon, in western\u00a0Manitoba, is expected to see high risk conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The warnings come as the province is dealing with 136 active wildfires, with 19 considered out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Wildfire smoke is also lingering over northwestern Ontario, with an air quality warning for Thunder Bay and a forecast for moderately risky conditions heading into Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada says the smoke is expected to cause reduced visibility and people are advised to limit their time outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air quality warnings are in effect for\u00a0Manitoba\u00a0as wildfire smoke continues to blanket much of the province. Environment Canada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-41322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41322","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=41322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}