Canada’s Wildfire Smoke Puts Millions of Americans Under Air Quality Alerts

Canada’s Wildfire Smoke Puts Millions of Americans Under Air Quality Alerts
A person walks along the shore of Lake Michigan as the downtown skyline is blanketed in haze from Canadian wildfires in Chicago on June 27, 2023. Kiichiro Sato/AP Photo
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
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Smoke from Canadian wildfires is blanketing cities in the United States, with air quality warnings in effect across the Midwest and toward the East Coast as hundreds of fires rage out of control north of the border.

The Detroit area woke up on June 28 to some of the worst air quality in the United States because of smoke from Canada’s 480 wildfires.

Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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