{"id":76214,"date":"2026-07-17T13:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/more-canadian-wildfire-smoke-shrouds-us-midwest-mid-atlantic-and-north-east\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:55:27","slug":"more-canadian-wildfire-smoke-shrouds-us-midwest-mid-atlantic-and-north-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/more-canadian-wildfire-smoke-shrouds-us-midwest-mid-atlantic-and-north-east\/","title":{"rendered":"More Canadian wildfire smoke shrouds US midwest, mid-Atlantic and north-east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>109 million people face another day of poor air quality as smoke from blazes in Ontario drifts over the US<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tens of millions of Americans are enduring another day of smoky skies, irritated eyes and bad air quality, as Canadian wildfire smoke spread again over huge swathes of the US, affecting about 109 million people across the midwest, mid-Atlantic and north-east.<\/p>\n<p>The pungent wildfire blanketed cities such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/chicago\">Chicago<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/detroit\">Detroit<\/a>, where residents on Friday were warned to stay indoors and reduce activity levels after the air quality index reached a \u201chazardous\u201d 361, according to the government website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airnow.gov\/?city=Detroit&amp;state=MI&amp;country=USA\">AirNow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/17\/canada-wildfire-smoke-midwest-mid-atlantic-north-east\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>109 million people face another day of poor air quality as smoke from blazes in Ontario drifts over the US Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Tens of millions of Americans are enduring another day of smoky skies, irritated eyes and bad air quality, as Canadian wildfire smoke spread again over huge &#8230; <a title=\"More Canadian wildfire smoke shrouds US midwest, mid-Atlantic and north-east\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/more-canadian-wildfire-smoke-shrouds-us-midwest-mid-atlantic-and-north-east\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about More Canadian wildfire smoke shrouds US midwest, mid-Atlantic and north-east\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}