{"id":246349,"date":"2026-07-18T02:01:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246349\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T02:01:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:01:35","slug":"smoky-haze-in-pittsburgh-from-wildfires-see-the-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246349\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoky haze in Pittsburgh from wildfires: See the video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haze over Pittsburgh from wildfire smoke: See the video<\/p>\n<p>Code Purple air quality alert issued in Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769019068_844_wtae.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WTAE logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 4:46 PM EDT Jul 17, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWildfire smoke continued to impact the Pittsburgh region on Friday, as a Code Purple air quality alert remained in effect.Video from Drone 4 over the confluence of the three rivers showed the smoky haze in Pittsburgh. Watch the video above.Purple indicates &#8220;very unhealthy&#8221; on the color-coded Air Quality Index.Allegheny County closed swimming pools and canceled the summer concert series on Friday, with residents being urged to stay indoors. Pittsburgh city pools were also closed.Kennywood Park, Sandcastle Water Park and Idlewild &amp; SoakZone all closed for the day.See a full list of reported closings here.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/map-air-quality-wildfires\/72768275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wildfire smoke<\/a> continued to impact the Pittsburgh region on Friday, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/pennsylvania-code-purple-air-quality-wildfire-smoke\/72819604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Code Purple air quality alert<\/a> remained in effect.<\/p>\n<p>Video from Drone 4 over the confluence of the three rivers showed the smoky haze in Pittsburgh. Watch the video above.<\/p>\n<p>Purple indicates &#8220;very unhealthy&#8221; on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/air-quality-alerts-code-red-purple\/72758867\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the color-coded Air Quality Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Allegheny County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/allegheny-county-air-quality-alert-heat-events-canceled\/73170156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">closed swimming pools and canceled the summer concert series<\/a> on Friday, with residents being urged to stay indoors. Pittsburgh city pools were also closed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/kennywood-sandcastle-and-idlewild-all-closed-due-to-code-purple-air-quality-alert\/73168952\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kennywood Park<\/a>, Sandcastle Water Park and Idlewild &amp; SoakZone all closed for the day.<\/p>\n<p>See a full list of reported closings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/weather\/closings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haze over Pittsburgh from wildfire smoke: See the video Code Purple air quality alert issued in Pennsylvania Updated:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30286,894,104972,31194,7020,4327,88703,88376,73,82793,75,74,25983,102128,105450,88377,38310,97834,420,16361,88713],"class_list":["post-246349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-air-quality-alert","tag-allegheny-county","tag-code-purple","tag-drone","tag-effect","tag-friday","tag-haze","tag-idlewild","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-city-pool","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-river","tag-sandcastle-water-park","tag-smoky-haze","tag-soakzone","tag-summer-concert-series","tag-swimming-pool","tag-video","tag-wildfire","tag-wildfire-smoke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246349","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=246349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}