The Washington, DC city emergency management office on Thursday issued a “Code Red Alert” for air quality as smoke from raging Canadian wildfires drifted toward the capital, Politico reports
“This means very poor air quality is expected, which may be unhealthy for people with heart or lung disease, older adults, children and teens,” the bulletin said. DC is just the latest city in the nation’s eastern half to be smoked out as Chicago, Detroit, and large swaths of the Upper Midwest have for days suffered from the result of Canadian flaming. New York City is also under an air quality alert on Thursday, however the smoke is not nearly as bad as experienced earlier this month.