Canadian wildfires impact air quality across Vt. & N.Y.

ALBURGH, Vt. (WCAX) – Hazy and smoky skies from Canadian wildfires jacking up the Air Quality Index to unhealthy levels.

The New York Department of Health, and the Department of Environmental Conservation issued an Air Quality Health Advisory for the Adirondacks, Eastern Lake Ontario and Central and Western New York.

According to Vermont Alerts, the Air Quality Index is unhealthy for sensitive groups in all counties.

This morning our Darren Perron was in the northern part of the state, he said from a spot in Alburg Springs, normally, you can see Jay Peak, Camel’s Hump, and Mount Washington, but not Saturday. That smoke did not clear out as the day went on, the view still clouded by smoke at the Alburgh Dunes State Park in the afternoon.

Vermonters took advantage of the nice weather, but people on the lake could not see the water, because there was so much smoke in the air.

“It looks like a real hazy day. That’s what we thought it was at first, but it is the smoke from Canada. We have had so much rain, we are hoping to see the sun. But is is better today than if it were rainy,” Darlyne Mceleney of Stowe said.

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