Smoke from wildfires causing air quality warning in southern Ontario
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Environment Canada is warning “high levels of air pollution” are developing across a large swath of southern Ontario due to smoke from forest fires.
Environment Canada is warning “high levels of air pollution” are developing across a large swath of southern Ontario due to smoke from forest fires.
The national weather agency issued a special air quality statement for Waterloo region just before 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
"Today is the first day I smelt the air," one Waterloo region resident said. "And it smelled like someone was having a BBQ."
At the time of the statement, the Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) for Kitchener was level 2, which is low risk.
Level 10 is the highest level in the AQHI before it becomes very high risk.
On Wednesday morning, the index sat at level 8, and was predicted to get to level 10 by 4 p.m.
