{"id":9151,"date":"2025-09-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=9151"},"modified":"2025-09-11T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:05:21","slug":"smoke-from-canadas-wildfires-killed-nine-year-old-carter-vigh-and-82000-others-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/smoke-from-canadas-wildfires-killed-nine-year-old-carter-vigh-and-82000-others-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke from Canada\u2019s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh \u2013 and 82,000 others around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Vigh had taken the usual precautions when bringing her nine-year-old son, Carter, to summer camp in July 2023. There were no fires near their home in British Columbia, <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\">Canada<\/a>. Her air quality app showed low levels of pollution. She could not smell any smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Carter, a music-loving Lego enthusiast who had asthma, brought along his smiling shark tooth-patterned emergency kit that held an inhaler, allergy pill and EpiPen. When smoke did roll in from the north, Vigh took him indoors.<\/p>\n<p>But at home that evening, Carter began to cough uncontrollably. Vigh and her husband, James, followed the doctors\u2019 checklist \u2013 emergency inhaler, drink of water, steroid inhaler \u2013 and gave him a bath to cool down. Then, \u201call of a sudden, he started coughing again like crazy\u201d, said Vigh.<\/p>\n<p>Alarmed, she drove Carter to the local hospital and called ahead so medics would be waiting. \u201cThis isn\u2019t good,\u201d Carter told his dad while being carried to the truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Vigh had taken the usual precautions when bringing her nine-year-old son, Carter, to summer camp in July 2023. There were no fires near their home in British Columbia, <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/canada\">Canada<\/a>. Her air quality app showed low levels of pollution. She could not smell any smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Carter, a music-loving Lego enthusiast who had asthma, brought along his smiling shark tooth-patterned emergency kit that held an inhaler, allergy pill and EpiPen. When smoke did roll in from the north, Vigh took him indoors.<\/p>\n<p>But at home that evening, Carter began to cough uncontrollably. Vigh and her husband, James, followed the doctors\u2019 checklist \u2013 emergency inhaler, drink of water, steroid inhaler \u2013 and gave him a bath to cool down. Then, \u201call of a sudden, he started coughing again like crazy\u201d, said Vigh.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/smoke-from-canadas-wildfires-killed-nine-year-old-carter-vigh-and-82000-others-around-the-world\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smoke from Canada\u2019s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh \u2013 and 82,000 others around the world<\/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":[167,1132,519,83,96,126,405,334,391,1129,8,51,207,165],"class_list":["post-9151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-pollution","tag-air-quality","tag-asthma","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-climate-crisis","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-first-person-stories","tag-forest-fires","tag-research","tag-united-states","tag-wildfire-smoke","tag-wildfires","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9151","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=9151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9152,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9151\/revisions\/9152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}