{"id":247497,"date":"2026-07-20T05:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247497\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T05:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:06:21","slug":"air-quality-improves-caution-still-advised-at-presque-isle-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/247497\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Quality Improves, Caution Still Advised at Presque Isle | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After two days of hazardous and very poor air quality, conditions are beginning to improve across the Erie area. However, officials are still urging residents to use caution while spending time outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"pi.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1077\" height=\"445\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Due to the poor air quality, swimming was limited to Beaches 6 and 8 at Presque Isle State Park on Saturday. Park officials said the decision was made to protect the health and safety of lifeguards, park rangers, staff, and visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The park also adjusted some of its activities as air quality conditions continue to improve, such as their pontoon boat ride.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, the Presque Isle Half Marathon is still scheduled to take place Saturday morning as planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two days of hazardous and very poor air quality, conditions are beginning to improve across the Erie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[30257,84911,136,138,137,105783,105784,13820,2303,105782],"class_list":["post-247497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-air-quality","tag-beaches","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-outdoor-caution","tag-park-officials","tag-presque-isle","tag-public-health","tag-swimming-restrictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247497","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=247497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}