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Air quality in Nevada County was classified as unhealthy for sensitive groups last week and remained so through the weekend, a move largely driven by wildfire smoke particulate, experts said. On Thursday, the Air Quality Index (AQI) reached a level of 140 for Nevada and Placer counties — considered unhealthy for sensitive groups, according to the Northern Sierra Air Management District. Friday and Saturday the level reduced to 136 and then 126, still unhealthy for sensitive groups, and those with compromised immune systems. An email alert issued Monday by the air quality management district...

Video California’s largest wildfire this year, the Dixie Fire, started more than a week ago and has burned approximately 200,000 acres, according to state officials.CreditCredit...Noah Berger/Associated Press July 26, 2021 The Dixie Fire, California’s largest wildfire this year, continued to chew through thousands of acres of rough terrain on Monday, prompting evacuation orders and threatening communities in a region scarred by the memory of the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest in the state’s history. More than 5,400 firefighters were battling the Dixie Fire, which merged over the weekend ...

Montana issues air quality warning due to wildfire smoke REUTERS By Steve Almasy and Dave Alsup, CNN Smoke from the Western wildfires has prompted officials in Montana to issue air quality warnings in a dozen counties. “Air quality across the state ranges from MODERATE to UNHEALTHY, with the worst air quality concentrations occurring in the southern half of the state, south of the I-90 corridor. Air quality has worsened this morning, and will likely continue to worsen through Tuesday,” Montana Department of Environmental Quality announced in a news release. The department issued an air qu...

California, NYC to workers: Get vaccine or face weekly tests California and New York City announced Monday that they would require all government employees to get the coronavirus vaccine or face weekly COVID-19 testing, and the Department of Veterans Affairs became the first major federal agency to require health care workers to receive the shot. Meanwhile, in a possible sign that increasingly dire health warnings are getting through to more Americans, vaccination rates began to creep up again, offering hope that the nation could yet break free of the coronavirus if people who have been reluc...

California wildfires have merged to present an even greater threat. Credit: AP/Press Association California’s largest wildfire has merged with a smaller blaze and destroyed homes in remote areas with limited access for firefighters. The massive Dixie Fire, which started on July 14, had already levelled over a dozen houses and other structures when it combined with the Fly Fire and tore through the tiny Northern California community of Indian Falls after dark on Saturday. Fire officials said the blaze had charred nearly 298 square miles of timber and brush in Plumas and Butte counties. It wa...