{"id":245183,"date":"2026-07-16T20:27:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245183\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:27:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:27:38","slug":"code-purple-alert-issued-as-wildfire-smoke-hits-nw-pa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245183\/","title":{"rendered":"Code Purple Alert Issued as Wildfire Smoke Hits NW PA | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Code Purple Air Quality Alert has been issued for Northwest Pennsylvania on Thursday, July 16, due to heavy wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>A Code Purple Air Quality Alert means the current air quality is in the unhealthy range.<\/p>\n<p>This includes counties like Erie, Crawford, and Warren. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is asking everyone to limit outdoor activities, while sensitive groups are urged to stay indoors.<\/p>\n<p>To help reduce pollution, avoid using gas-powered equipment and burning materials.<\/p>\n<p>For updates, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.airnow.gov\/?city=Erie&amp;state=PA&amp;country=USA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AirNow.gov<\/a> or the Pennsylvania DEP website. Stay safe and stay informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Code Purple Air Quality Alert has been issued for Northwest Pennsylvania on Thursday, July 16, due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[30286,104972,602,136,138,137,18840,88713],"class_list":["post-245183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-air-quality-alert","tag-code-purple","tag-dep","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-northwest-pennsylvania","tag-wildfire-smoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245183","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=245183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}