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With the Kingston-Belleville area breathing in the worst of local air quality warnings, people are being asked to change plans to minimize time outside until Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
Environment Canada’s warnings about wildfire smoke that once covered all of eastern Ontario and the Shawville, Que., area now start well south of the Ottawa River.<\/p>\n
Communities such as Belleville, Kingston and Tweed have an orange-level, or uncommonly concerning, alert.<\/p>\n
At 1 p.m. Kingston air quality was greater than 10, the maximum on the health risk scale. Belleville was a 10.<\/p>\n
It’s been at least high risk (seven or above) in Belleville since 1 a.m. Kingston was high risk as of 7 a.m.<\/p>\n
Air quality there may degrade again Friday or Saturday, forecasters say.<\/p>\n
A very high risk air quality means vulnerable people such as children or the elderly should avoid taxing outdoor activities and everyone else should reschedule or cut back on them.<\/p>\n
High risk means vulnerable people should reschedule or cut back exerting themselves outdoors and others should consider doing the same.<\/p>\n
People should limit time outside during the warning, according to Environment Canada, and consider wearing a respirator-type face mask if they do go out for some protection against fine particles in smoke.<\/p>\n
NW Ontario smoke<\/p>\n
Another warning from Ardoch to Brockville is yellow, the lowest on the three-colour scale.<\/p>\n
At 12 p.m., Ottawa and Cornwall’s air quality risk was low.<\/p>\n
The smoky air is coming from more than 100 wildfires in northwestern Ontario<\/a> that have led to several communities, many of them Anishinaabe, being evacuated or going on standby<\/a> for a possible evacuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-806138","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\/806138","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=806138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}