‘I Can Taste the Air’: Wildfire Smoke from Canada Spreads Hazardous Haze at Home and in the US | Chicago News
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 7, 2023
A Man talks on his phone as he looks through the haze at the George Washington Bridge from Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo / Seth Wenig)
NEW YORK (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest on Wednesday, covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze, holding up flights at major airports and prompting people to fish out pandemic-era face masks.
While Canadian officials asked other countries for help fighting more than 400 blazes nationwide that already have displaced 20,000 people . . .
