{"id":803810,"date":"2026-07-15T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803810\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:24:13","slug":"wildfire-smoke-turns-toronto-sky-orange-prompts-air-quality-alerts-across-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/803810\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke turns Toronto sky orange, prompts air quality alerts across Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784132653_777_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The CN Tower is pictured in Toronto as wildfire smoke fills the city, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Laura Proctor<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 15, 2026 | 9:05 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Smoke from wildfires in northwestern Ontario is drifting south and choking the skies over Toronto and other regions. <\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada\u2019s air quality warnings are active from Thunder Bay to Kingston and down to London as several First Nations communities in northwestern Ontario are under mandatory evacuation orders due to forest fires.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Philippe B\u00e9gin, a meteorologist with the weather agency, says winds from the northwest will continue to blanket Toronto and southern Ontario with smoke until at least Friday, when winds are expected to change direction and blow smoke north. <\/p>\n<p>It could bring relief to southern Ontarians by the end of the week but would put communities north of the fires in the crosshairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CN Tower is pictured in Toronto as wildfire smoke fills the city, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-803810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803810","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=803810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}