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Woke up to this, this morning...
For comparison, at the worst of the fire smoke last year (which was terrible during that period), we were very much into the hazardous range, but at a much lower at 409. Hazardous starts at 301.
From the IQ Air website: "PM2.5 concentration in Peace River is currently 196.3 times the WHO annual air quality guideline value"
Grimshaw, where I work today is at 905!!
(I just checked--one of the monitors in Grande Prairie, which is where I think the big fire is, maxxed out at 999. The measuring device doesn't record higher/worse than that.
Edit: evidently, most of the smoke is from a fairly large collection of fires well north of us in the neighboring province (BC, north of Fort St. John).
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