{"id":8706,"date":"2025-05-31T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8706"},"modified":"2025-06-01T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T15:47:11","slug":"very-high-risk-air-quality-in-brandon-as-smoke-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/very-high-risk-air-quality-in-brandon-as-smoke-persists\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very high risk\u2019 air quality in Brandon, as smoke persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) for Brandon reached 10+, indicating a \u201cvery high risk\u201d level on Saturday morning, as thick smoke was expected to linger in the air until Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada\u2019s forecast anticipates that these hazardous conditions will persist through Saturday night, with only a slight improvement expected, dropping to a \u201cmoderate risk\u201d (AQHI 6) by Sunday morning and a \u201chigh risk\u201d (AQHI 7) by Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The elevated readings are the result of thick wildfire smoke that drifted into Brandon Friday evening and remains heavy over the city Saturday morning. The smoke originates from wildfires burning in northern Manitoba and northern Saskatchewan and has led Environment Canada to issue a special air quality statement for the city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"research-citation\">\n<h2>Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/resources\/masks-respirators\/\">Masks \/ respirators<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/resources\/air-quality-maps\/\">Air quality maps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/airquality\/pages\/index_e.html\">Environment and Climate Change Canada \u2014 Local Air Quality Health Index<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/\">Environment and Climate Change Canada \u2014 Weather Alerts for Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) for Brandon reached 10+, indicating a \u201cvery high risk\u201d level on Saturday morning, as thick smoke was expected to linger in the air until Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada\u2019s forecast anticipates that these hazardous conditions will persist through Saturday night, with only a slight improvement expected, dropping to a \u201cmoderate risk\u201d (AQHI 6) by Sunday morning and a \u201chigh risk\u201d (AQHI 7) by Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The elevated readings are the result of thick wildfire smoke that drifted into Brandon Friday evening and remains heavy over the city Saturday morning. The smoke originates from wildfires burning in northern Manitoba and northern Saskatchewan and has led Environment Canada to issue a special air quality statement for the city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/very-high-risk-air-quality-in-brandon-as-smoke-persists\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Very high risk\u2019 air quality in Brandon, as smoke persists<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1132,1338,96,126,1150,1129,282,245,207,165],"class_list":["post-8706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-quality","tag-brandon","tag-canada","tag-climate-crisis","tag-environment-and-climate-change-canada","tag-forest-fires","tag-manitoba","tag-n95-respirators","tag-wildfire-smoke","tag-wildfires","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8706"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8716,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8706\/revisions\/8716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}