Browsing: Smoke

Starting on July 14, smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted into the Upper Valley and across much of the Eastern United States, turning the sky visibly yellow in Hanover on July 14 and 15. On July 16, the air smelled of smoke. Some students who exercise outdoors said the air quality worried them. 

A thick, smoky haze combined with intense heat ranging from 88 to 100 degrees lingered inside Ford Motor’s Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne throughout the night and into the morning of July 16, sending several dozen assembly line workers to the medical unit. Then some were taken out on stretchers by ambulance to area hospitals,…