{"id":7128,"date":"2025-07-19T03:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7128\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T03:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T03:43:11","slug":"air-quality-warnings-issued-in-saskatchewan-manitoba-as-wildfire-smoke-lingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7128\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality warnings issued in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, as wildfire smoke lingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air quality issues linger<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press &#8211; Jul 18, 2025 \/ 6:20 am | Story: 562028<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Last year\u2019s record-breaking wildfire season forced Canadians to become familiar with the scale of air pollution as hazardous smoke drifted across the country. Smoke from wildfires blankets the city as a couple has a picnic in Edmonton, Saturday, May 11, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jason Franson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0abb63c9f4a7c63cd031002860a1a8746b1ec5fc26692f462d9ee7f9bcdb684d.jpg\" style=\"height:416px; width:640px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Smoke from wildfires blankets the city as a couple has a picnic in Edmonton, May 11, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Air quality warnings remain in effect for parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba as wildfire smoke continues to linger over the region.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada says the northwestern Saskatchewan community of Buffalo Narrows will see some of the poorest conditions, with the air quality health Index hitting the &#8220;very high risk&#8221; rating of over 10 throughout Friday and into Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Prince Albert, Sask., is also affected by the smoky air, where Environment Canada says the index is also expected to be at over 10 throughout Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In northwestern Manitoba, Environment Canada says the Flin Flon area is also under warning, with the index forecasted to drop from high risk to moderate risk by Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency says smoke is expected to cause reduced visibility and poor air quality throughout the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>There were 118 active wildfires burning across Manitoba as of Thursday, with Saskatchewan reporting 48 active wildfires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air quality issues linger The Canadian Press &#8211; Jul 18, 2025 \/ 6:20 am | Story: 562028 Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-7128","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\/7128","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=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}