{"id":247288,"date":"2026-07-19T18:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247288\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T18:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:45:19","slug":"sunday-air-quality-code-orange-issued-for-erie-surrounding-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247288\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday air quality: Code Orange issued for Erie, surrounding counties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(WJET\/WFXP)\u2013 As smoke from the wildfires in Canada and Minnesota continues to make its way through the region, a Code Orange Air Quality Alert was issued for Erie and some surrounding counties.<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said particulate matter (PM2.5) levels from the smoke will place several counties, including Erie, Crawford and Mercer, in the Code Orange range.<\/p>\n

Code Orange Alerts were also issued for Ashtabula County, Ohio and Chautauqua County, New York.<\/p>\n

Officials are encouraging sensitive groups, including children, older adults, and those with respiratory conditions to avoid heavy outdoor activity during this time.<\/p>\n

To help reduce the levels of pollution in the air, the DEP is also strongly encouraging people and businesses in the affected areas to avoid using gas-powered lawn and garden equipment and avoid the open burning of leaves, trash, and other materials.<\/p>\n

More localized PM2.5 levels can be found online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WJET\/WFXP)\u2013 As smoke from the wildfires in Canada and Minnesota continues to make its way through the region,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[105726,32009,105724,136,138,137,237,293,2220,105725],"class_list":["post-247288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-ashtabula-county","tag-chautauqua-county","tag-code-orange-air-quality-alert","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-new-york","tag-ohio","tag-pennsylvania-department-of-environmental-protection","tag-wildfires-in-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247288","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=247288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}