Are you smelling smoke? Seeing a haze? That is the smoke from the Canadian wildfires in the air moving through Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
While many of us in Upstate New York dealt with smog and smoke on Tuesday from the Canadian wildfires, take a look at what residents of New York City dealt with throughout the day today.
It could be another smoky weekend in Minnesota. The state Pollution Control Agency has expanded a previously issued air quality alert for the north half of Minnesota to include the southern half of the state through noon on Sunday.
Retirement communities built on golf courses, semi-rural racehorse stables and other usually serene sites were engulfed by flames as the San Diego area became the latest front in California’s wildfire fight.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- California's newest huge wildfire advanced on thousands of homes Wednesday, feeding on drought-stricken vegetation and destroying an untold number of structures as it expanded to nearly 47 square miles.