{"id":245813,"date":"2026-07-17T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245813\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:23:04","slug":"wildfire-smoke-philly-suspends-trash-pickup-closes-pools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245813\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke: Philly suspends trash pickup, closes pools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/whyy-news-climate-desk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WHYY News Climate Desk<\/a>, bringing you news and solutions for our changing region.\n<\/p>\n<p>From the Poconos to the Jersey Shore to the mouth of the Delaware Bay, what do you want to know about climate change? What would you like us to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Get in touch<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The city of Philadelphia is suspending trash pickup Friday and closing pools and spraygrounds after <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-pa-wildfire-smoke-code-red-canada\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wildfire smoke<\/a> from Canada and Minnesota sparked a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/dep\/newsroom\/2026-07-16-dep-declares-statewide-code-purple-air-quality-alert-for-friday-july-17-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Code Purple air quality warning.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnow.gov\/?city=Philadelphia&amp;state=PA&amp;country=USA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">air quality in Philadelphia<\/a> Friday is very unhealthy for everyone, even people without underlying heart or lung conditions. City public health officials say everyone is likely to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phila.gov\/2026-07-17-philadelphia-under-code-purple-air-quality-alert-for-particulate-matter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">experience health effects<\/a> from being exposed.\n  <\/p>\n<p>City libraries will remain open Friday for people who need access to air conditioning. The temperature is forecast to reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit Friday afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur worsening air quality is a dangerous development,\u201d city public health commissioner Dr. Palak Raval-Nelson said in a written statement. \u201cI strongly encourage all residents to take action to protect themselves by staying indoors, unless they need to be outdoors.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30257,99223,69,71,70,6664,5206,55197],"class_list":["post-245813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-air-quality","tag-code-red","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-smoke","tag-whyy-news-climate-desk","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245813","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=245813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}