{"id":244374,"date":"2026-07-15T23:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244374\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T23:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:01:14","slug":"code-red-air-quality-warning-issued-for-thursday-as-wildfire-smoke-approaches-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244374\/","title":{"rendered":"Code Red air quality warning issued for Thursday as wildfire smoke approaches Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 A Code Red Air Quality Alert has been issued for Thursday for all of Pennsylvania due to wildfire smoke that is expected to enter the state and linger through Friday. <\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/hot-hazy-heat-wave-continues-with-smoky-skies-on-the-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Heat wave continues with smoky skies on the way<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnow.gov\/aqi\/aqi-basics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Air Quality Index<\/a>, Code Red is described as unhealthy for all groups. Sensitive groups could experience more serious health effects.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Environmental Protection said the smoke is expected to enter through Pennsylvania&#8217;s northernmost counties and continue to the south. <\/p>\n<p>The DEP said it will continue to monitor the smoke. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 A Code Red Air Quality Alert has been issued for Thursday for all of Pennsylvania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-244374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}