{"id":245692,"date":"2026-07-17T10:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245692\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:17:18","slug":"live-updates-canadian-wildfire-smoke-prompts-air-quality-issues-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245692\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Canadian wildfire smoke prompts air quality issues \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to KnowA FIRST ALERT is in effect for the Philadelphia region due to poor air quality after Canadian wildfire smoke moved into the area and is expected to linger into Saturday. Everyone should limit time outdoors, especially during strenuous activity. Those with respiratory conditions, the elderly and children are most vulnerable and should stay indoors as much as possible.If you must be outside, an N95 mask can help filter the smoke particles.<a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/35a3b9706b2946ba937a33de049ffae5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia residents can check on the current air quality in their neighborhood through the city&#8217;s &#8220;Breathe Philly&#8221; map<\/a>.Get the latest weather updates by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">downloading the NBC10 app<\/a>\u00a0and following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the NBC10 First Alert Weather team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A FIRST ALERT is in effect for the Philadelphia region due to poor air quality after Canadian wildfire smoke moved into the area on Thursday and is expected to linger into Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Follow along below for live updates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowA FIRST ALERT is in effect for the Philadelphia region due to poor air quality after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7554,69,71,70,913],"class_list":["post-245692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-first-alert-weather","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-weather-forecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245692","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=245692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}