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Last updated: Wednesday, July 15, 2026 7:36PM GMT<\/p>\n
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NEW YORK (WABC) — All of New York State, including New York City, and parts of New Jersey are under an Air Quality Advisory due to the smoke from more than 100 wildfires burning in Canada.<\/p>\n
The Tri-State will see visible smoke and hazy skies across the state and spikes in smoke-related pollution.<\/p>\n
Fine particle pollution from wildfire smoke can cause shortness of breath, coughing, dizziness or fatigue and aggravate heart and lung diseases and other chronic health issues.<\/p>\n
Experts suggest reducing or eliminating outdoor activities, wearing a N95 mask if you have to be outside and keeping your indoor air cleaner by closing windows and running an air purifier or air conditioner.<\/p>\n
Check back for live updates.<\/p>\n
Key Headlines<\/p>\n
Here’s how the news is developing.<\/p>\n
Westchester County officials warn of unhealthy air quality<\/p>\n
The Westchester County Health Department is urging residents to take extra precautions as a combination of extreme heat, high humidity and smoke from Canadian wildfires creates unhealthy air quality for sensitive groups.<\/p>\n
Governor Kathy Hochul warned New Yorkers that smoke from ongoing wildfires in Canada, combined with high temperatures, will lead to poor air quality across much of the state.<\/p>\n
The smoke is expected to move across New York throughout the day and may be visible in the sky.<\/p>\n
“Please take this heat seriously. When it is this hot and humid, drink plenty of water, avoid alcohol, and take frequent breaks from outdoor work if it cannot be rescheduled,” said Westchester County health commissioner Dr. Sherlita Amler. “Take time to cool off and spend time in air-conditioned places. Infants, those with asthma, pregnant women, older adults and those with heart disease or other respiratory or heart conditions should spend less time outdoors until the air quality improves and the temperature cools. Be mindful of possible health effects such as coughing or shortness of breath.”<\/p>\n
PHOTOS: A look at conditions through Friday<\/p>\n
Maps show how the smoke will impact air quality through Friday.<\/p>\n
All of NY will see visible smoke, DEC commissioner says<\/p>\n State DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton said they expect air quality to deteriorate throughout the day “as we continue to see impacts from wildfires.”<\/p>\n “Throughout the day people are going to experience spikes in air quality that will be problematic, we are going to continue to see perhaps waves of poor air quality throughout the day,” Lefton said. “It’s going to start in western and central New York and make its way down to the Lower Hudson Valley and New York City, the entire state could and will likely see poor air quality today.”<\/p>\n Lefton said the entire state will see visible smoke. That is not necessarily indicative of air quailty, because that might be happening at higher levels. Mayor Mamdani posts that air quality has reached unhealthy levels<\/p>\n Mayor Mamdani posts that air quality has reached unhealthy levels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last updated: Wednesday, July 15, 2026 7:36PM GMT NEW YORK (WABC) — All of New York State, including…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113060,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-296940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-113060","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784144773_251_19513512_071526-wabc-air-alert-cover-img.jpg\"\/)
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