{"id":797254,"date":"2026-07-12T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797254\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T15:05:10","slug":"wildfire-smoke-causes-poor-air-quality-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797254\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke causes poor air quality in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sopfeu.qc.ca\/en\/map\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quebec forest fires continue<\/a> through the weekend, with smoke expected to impact Ottawa air quality all day.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:25 a.m. on Sunday, Environment Canada issued a yellow-level air quality warning, recommending people spend more time indoors and reschedule outdoor events to protect from the smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The warning also said people may experience mild and common symptoms like eye, nose and throat irritation, headaches or a mild cough. There is also risk of serious but less common symptoms include wheezing, chest pains or severe cough.<\/p>\n<p>People 65 and over as well as young children, pregnant people and those with previous health conditions are more likely to be impacted by wildfire smoke. <\/p>\n<p>As of 8 a.m., the air quality index indicates a level five or \u201cmoderate risk\u201d air quality. This is expected to go down to a level three \u201clow risk\u201d by the evening, continuing into Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Should you need to spend time outdoors, Environment Canada recommends wearing a NIOSH-certified N95 mask. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1024x712.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4438789\"  \/>A map of Quebec wildfires, with red indicating places where fire is out of control and green indicating lower risk of fire (SOPFEU)<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Ottawa as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=ottawa.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778352312_74_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quebec forest fires continue through the weekend, with smoke expected to impact Ottawa air quality all day. At&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-797254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797254","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=797254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}