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<\/p>\nAllegheny County cancels events and closes pools as air quality alert and heat persist<\/p>\n
Code Purple air quality alert and extreme heat; Allegheny County residents urged to stay indoors<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWith all of Pennsylvania under *** code purple alert for air quality, County executive Sarah Innamorado is urging people to stay inside if they can. So if your house is hot and you do not have air conditioning, go someplace with air conditioning. Libraries, malls, movie theaters are really popular options. Well, the haze is here to. Stay at least for the rest of Friday. So with that, the county executive announced all county pools are closed and the summer concert series is canceled tonight. She doesn’t expect any county activities canceled on Saturday or Sunday. She is urging county workers to limit time outdoors due to the air quality and extreme heat. Plus she offered up some tips to stay safe moving. Forward, grab *** mask, drink plenty of water, take breaks, find *** shaded area, wear *** hat, wear sunscreen, do what you can, um, to mitigate the risk of being outside today, and you can sign up for Allegheny County alerts. We have that link over on our website WTAE.com for now covering Allegheny County at the county courthouse, Ava Rash, Pittsburgh’s Action News.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Allegheny County cancels events and closes pools as air quality alert and heat persist<\/p>\n
Code Purple air quality alert and extreme heat; Allegheny County residents urged to stay indoors<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 12:58 PM EDT Jul 17, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\tEditorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\tAllegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato has issued a warning for residents to stay indoors as the region remains under a Code Purple air quality alert and faces extreme heat. “If your house is hot and you do not have air conditioning, go someplace with air conditioning. Libraries, malls, movie theaters are really popular options,” Innamorato said Friday.The haze is expected to linger through the rest of Friday. As a result, Innamorato announced that county pools are closed and the summer concert series is canceled for the day. She added that no county activities are expected to be canceled on Saturday or Sunday. EXPLAINER: What is Code Purple air quality?Innamorato also urged county workers to limit their time outdoors due to the hazardous conditions and shared tips for staying safe. “Grab a mask. Drink plenty of water. Take breaks. Find a shaded area. Wear a hat. Wear sunscreen. Do what you can to mitigate the risk of being outside today,” she said.You can sign up for Allegheny County Alerts here.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato has issued a warning for residents to stay indoors as the region remains under a Code Purple air quality alert<\/a> and faces extreme heat<\/a>. <\/p>\n “If your house is hot and you do not have air conditioning, go someplace with air conditioning. Libraries, malls, movie theaters are really popular options,” Innamorato said Friday.<\/p>\n The haze is expected to linger through the rest of Friday. As a result, Innamorato announced that county pools are closed and the summer concert series is canceled<\/a> for the day. She added that no county activities are expected to be canceled on Saturday or Sunday. <\/p>\n EXPLAINER: What is Code Purple air quality?<\/a><\/p>\n Innamorato also urged county workers to limit their time outdoors due to the hazardous conditions and shared tips for staying safe. <\/p>\n “Grab a mask. Drink plenty of water. Take breaks. Find a shaded area. Wear a hat. Wear sunscreen. Do what you can to mitigate the risk of being outside today,” she said.<\/p>\n You can sign up for Allegheny County Alerts here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allegheny County cancels events and closes pools as air quality alert and heat persist Code Purple air quality…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30286,75782,894,104972,5609,13112,74472,4327,105296,85948,8040,18642,29286,139,73,75,74,61116,1837,2867],"class_list":["post-246095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-air-quality-alert","tag-air-conditioning","tag-allegheny-county","tag-code-purple","tag-event","tag-explainer","tag-extreme-heat","tag-friday","tag-heat-persist","tag-innamorato","tag-library","tag-mall","tag-movie-theater","tag-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pool","tag-sunday","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246095","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=246095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}