Experts are warning pregnant people about the health impacts of breathing smoke and the potential risks it poses to both maternal and fetal well-being.
People across a wide area of the United States, including New York, were under alert on June 7 due to poor air quality from thick smoke caused by wildfires in Canada.
The White House said Joe Biden ordered to rapidly deploy all available U.S. firefighting assets to Canada after speaking with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the wildfires.
It didn't take long for smoke from Canadian wildfires to make Manhattan unrecognizable. LEX 18 editor Floyd Baldwin was heading up to the city for the weekend.