{"id":158469,"date":"2023-06-07T21:40:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T01:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=158469"},"modified":"2023-06-07T21:40:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T01:40:32","slug":"kingston-left-with-worst-air-quality-in-ontario-from-quebec-wildfire-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/kingston-left-with-worst-air-quality-in-ontario-from-quebec-wildfire-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingston left with worst air quality in Ontario from Quebec wildfire smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kingstonians woke up Tuesday to find the city shrouded in a blanket of smoke as a result of the forest fires in Quebec and northeastern Ontario. As wind carries the smoke east, s<\/span>moke from the wildfires has resulted in deteriorated air quality across Ontario.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Environment Canada reported June 6 that Kingston had the worst air quality in Ontario at a level 10, the highest on the scale. The conditions have continued into Wednesday morning, with the air quality still sitting at level 10. The conditions are expected to continue for at least the next few days, with air quality projected to improve slightly on Thursday before deteriorating again on Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many Kingston locals have been sharing images of smoke obscuring the city and their experiences over the past few days, reporting sore throats, irritated eyes, and other unpleasant impacts of the air quality:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I am in Kingston, and I can see the impacts of the fires in Quebec and Northern ON. The sky is clouded by smoke, the air smells like a bonfire and my throat kills me when I got out.<\/p>\n

This is all the result of climate change.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Shelby (@Lefty_Mind) June 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Love waking up to the smell of campfire and smoke in the air. That\u2019s a totally normal thing in Kingston\u2026right? Nothing to be worried about. #ygk<\/a> #ONfire<\/a> #forrestfires<\/a> #ONwx<\/a> #QCfire<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Allan Etmanski (@allanetmanski) June 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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As the sun gets higher in the sky it is finally visible thru the smoke, I honestly don't think I can personally recall a time when the air\/sky over #ygk<\/a> was this bad.#Kingston<\/a> #Frontenac<\/a> #Wildfire<\/a> #Ontario<\/a> #QuebecWildfires<\/a> #news<\/a> #photography<\/a> #sunrise<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/FcOhW5gM1Z<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dominic Christian Owens (@DomChrisOwens) June 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Environment Canada recommends that people r<\/span>educe or reschedule strenuous activities outdoors, especially if you experience symptoms such as coughing and throat irritation. <\/span>In a statement issued by KFL&A Public Health<\/a>, they recommended an N95 mask as an effective way to filter out smoke if you have to be outdoors. <\/span><\/p>\n

For more information about air quality and recommendations to protect your health, visit <\/span>The Government of Canada website<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kingstonians woke up Tuesday to find the city shrouded in a blanket of smoke as a result of the forest fires in Quebec and northeastern Ontario. As wind carries the smoke east, smoke from the wildfires has resulted in deteriorated air quality across Ontario.\u00a0 Environment Canada reported June 6 that Kingston had the worst air…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":158475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222,223],"tags":[26797,8518,1201,13902,15004,985,26798],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158469"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158856,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158469\/revisions\/158856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158469"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=158469"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=158469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}