{"id":246514,"date":"2026-07-18T08:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246514\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:54:49","slug":"photos-wildfire-smoke-from-canada-minnesota-lingering-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246514\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Wildfire smoke from Canada, Minnesota lingering in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota has driven high pollution in eastern Pennsylvania already today, and the smoke is expected to grow thicker in the Pittsburgh region as the day goes on.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784364887_748_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Katie Blackley<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> 90.5 WESA<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"660\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784364887_802_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Katie Blackley<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> 90.5 WESA<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784364887_367_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Katie Blackley<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> 90.5 WESA<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Wildfire smoke in West Mifflin, Pa.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"660\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784364888_693_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>     Wildfire smoke in West Mifflin, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"660\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784364888_425_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kiley Koscinski<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> 90.5 WESA<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784364887_748_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Katie Blackley<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> 90.5 WESA<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Allegheny County is under a rare Code Maroon alert \u2014 the most severe rating under the U.S. Air Quality Index, signifying &quot;hazardous&quot; conditions \u2014 and the entire state is under a Code Purple alert due to smoke from wildfires in Canada and Minnesota.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"660\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784364888_99_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Niven Sabherwal<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> For 90.5 WESA<\/p>\n<p> Allegheny County is under a rare Code Maroon alert \u2014 the most severe rating under the U.S. Air Quality Index, signifying &#8220;hazardous&#8221; conditions \u2014 and the entire state is under a Code Purple alert due to smoke from wildfires in Canada and Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784364889_71_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Katie Blackley<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> 90.5 WESA<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"A Pittsburgh highway with traffic and a smoky background.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"660\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784364889_210_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Terry O&#8217;Reilly<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p> 90.5 WESA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota has driven high pollution in eastern Pennsylvania already today, and the smoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-246514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246514","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=246514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}