{"id":298053,"date":"2026-07-16T20:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298053\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:47:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:47:26","slug":"canada-wildfire-smoke-triggers-air-quality-alert-for-area-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298053\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Wildfire Smoke Triggers Air Quality Alert for Area | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Canada Wildfire Smoke Triggers Air Quality Alert for Area\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1763\" height=\"1175\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a58f4c833f0b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; An updated air quality health advisory has been issued for Central New York and surrounding regions due to smoke from Canadian wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the State Department of Health, the Upper Hudson Valley and Adirondack regions are forecast to reach &#8220;Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups&#8221; status.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Lake Ontario, Central New York and Western New York regions are forecast to reach &#8220;Very Unhealthy.&#8221; This includes Herkimer, Madison, Oneida and Otsego counties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The advisory upgrade is\u00a0for fine particulate matter and will last from 10 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. on July 16.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnow.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here to track air quality.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; An updated air quality health advisory has been issued for Central New York and surrounding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2312,1880,2966,2965,9,11,10,49,51,50,2964,5402,11199,13815],"class_list":["post-298053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adirondacks","tag-central-new-york","tag-herkimer-county","tag-madison-county","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","tag-oneida-county","tag-otsego-county","tag-smoke","tag-wildfire-smoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298053","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=298053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}