{"id":245372,"date":"2026-07-17T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245372\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:00:11","slug":"wildfires-bring-haze-unhealthy-air-quality-to-berks-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245372\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires bring haze, unhealthy air quality to Berks (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wildfire tearing through Canada and Minnesota brought haze and particulate matter into Berks County and eastern Pennsylvania, pushing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/07\/16\/what-is-the-air-quality-near-me-like-right-now-how-to-check-it-near-you-copy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">air quality<\/a> to unhealthy levels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A father and daughter at a lookout at the Pagoda can barely see downtown Reading on Thursday, July 16, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" height=\"333\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/REG-L-WildfireHaze1008.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"6867861\" \/>A father and daughter at a lookout at the Pagoda can barely see downtown Reading on Thursday, July 16, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The usually scenic view of downtown Reading from the Pagoda is obscured by haze from Canadian wildfires on Thursday, July 16, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" height=\"300\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/REG-L-WildfireHaze1006.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"6867862\" \/>The usually scenic view of downtown Reading from the Pagoda is obscured by haze from Canadian wildfires on Thursday, July 16, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wildfire tearing through Canada and Minnesota brought haze and particulate matter into Berks County and eastern Pennsylvania,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706,1133],"class_list":["post-245372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245372","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=245372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}