{"id":172881,"date":"2019-05-29T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=172881"},"modified":"2019-05-30T14:12:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:12:20","slug":"health-risk-canadian-forest-fires-smoke-infiltrating-nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=172881","title":{"rendered":"Health risk: Canadian forest fires smoke infiltrating ND"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-172882 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/forest-fire-smoke-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/forest-fire-smoke-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/forest-fire-smoke-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/forest-fire-smoke-1024x708.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/forest-fire-smoke-253x175.jpg 253w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/forest-fire-smoke.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bismarck\u00a0 ( NDDEQ)\u00a0 The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality is advising individuals\u00a0 with respiratory conditions or other health problems to limit outdoor activities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>Smoky conditions from wildfires in northern Canada, in addition to some local agricultural burning, are causing air quality problems.<\/p>\n<p>The news release says, \u201cExtremely small particles of ash and soot, or particulate matter, have been increasing over the last few hours (Wednesday afternoon)\u00a0 across eastern North Dakota. Particulate matter can irritate the respiratory system, especially for those who suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or conditions such as asthma and allergies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The high particulate numbers, plus\u00a0 higher temperatures, could extend for the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, most of the smoke impact seems to be concentrated in the eastern part of the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo by Stephen Brashear\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 ( NDDEQ)\u00a0 The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality is advising individuals\u00a0 with respiratory conditions or other health problems to limit outdoor activities. Smoky conditions from wildfires in northern Canada, in addition to some local agricultural burning, are causing air quality problems. The news release says, \u201cExtremely small particles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172946,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172881\/revisions\/172946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}