{"id":303324,"date":"2026-10-09T20:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303324\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T20:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T20:50:16","slug":"code-orange-air-quality-alerts-for-saturday-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303324\/","title":{"rendered":"Code Orange: Air quality alerts for Saturday in Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/news-team\/44db4ebc-71f0-44ed-add5-81b1e96852b0\" aria-label=\"Jill Szwed profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791579016_420_44db4ebc-71f0-44ed-add5-81b1e96852b0_1707775958.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jill Szwed\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">An air quality alert has been issued for Saturday in Western Pennsylvania.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Oct. 10.  <\/p>\n<p>Code Orange Air Quality Alert:<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Allegheny, Dauphin, Cumberland, Lebanon, Lancaster, and York are included in the alert. The air will be unhealthy for sensitive groups, including children, the elderly and people with underlying conditions. Limit or avoid strenuous outdoor activities.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The alert was declared for the areas due to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5).<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">You are encouraged to keep a close eye on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnow.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AirNow website <\/a>and app for the current status of air quality in your area.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 An air quality alert has been issued for Saturday in Western Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30257,30286,55935,6110,2088,44806,6095,3027,30287,17452,116643,3701,2806,4329,4771,6039,12934,104616,10654,10744,2002,12932,2808,13202,28,13432,30,29,73,6741,7063,45579,105711,7214,1887,16361,18551],"class_list":["post-303324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-air-quality","tag-air-quality-alert","tag-air-quality-index","tag-allegheny","tag-area","tag-armstrong","tag-beaver","tag-butler","tag-code-orange","tag-condition","tag-county-interactive-radar","tag-cumberland","tag-dauphin","tag-day","tag-department-of-environmental-protection","tag-environmental-protection","tag-fayette","tag-fine-particulate-matter","tag-greene","tag-indiana","tag-lancaster","tag-lawrence","tag-lebanon","tag-mercer","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-department","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pm","tag-saturday","tag-severe-weather-alert","tag-southwestern-pa","tag-today","tag-washington","tag-wildfire","tag-wtae-app"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303324","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=303324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}