Air quality conditions continued to improve across the Philadelphia region Friday as wildfire smoke began to move out of the area.<\/p>\n
The city downgraded its air quality alert from Code Purple to Code Red on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia trash collection to resume as air quality improves<\/p>\n
“This is a changeable situation, depending on the wind pattern and other things,” Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Palak Raval-Nelson said.<\/p>\n
Meteorologists said a warm front lifting north will continue to improve air quality across the region, carrying much of the wildfire smoke into New England.<\/p>\n
Southeastern Pennsylvania will be under a Code Orange air quality alert on Saturday.<\/p>\n
In response to the poor air quality, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation moved some planned events indoors Friday, including the Philadelphia 250 school block party at the Duckrey School.<\/p>\n
Outdoor pools and spray grounds that were closed Friday are expected to reopen Saturday. Recycling collection, which was suspended because of the air quality, is also scheduled to resume.<\/p>\n
“We do plan on working all day Saturday and Sunday to make sure last week’s trash and recycling is collected,” said Carlton Williams, director of the city’s Office of Clean and Green Initiatives.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, large outdoor events remain on schedule despite the lingering smoke concerns.<\/p>\n
Chopper 6 was over Lincoln Financial Field, where comedian Shane Gillis is still scheduled to perform Friday night.<\/p>\n
Thousands of people are also expected to attend the FIFA Fan Festival concert at Lemon Hill in Fairmount Park featuring Bebe Rexha.<\/p>\n
Health officials continue to encourage residents to take precautions if spending extended periods outdoors.<\/p>\n
“If we are back in Code Purple, 90 minutes is the maximum time you should be spending outdoors,” Raval-Nelson said. “That’s not a bad metric for Code Red either.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air quality conditions continued to improve across the Philadelphia region Friday as wildfire smoke began to move out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30257,104972,79644,69,71,70,22579],"class_list":["post-246370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-air-quality","tag-code-purple","tag-palak-raval-nelson","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246370","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=246370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}