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August 5, 2025

Millions Face Air Quality Alerts as Wildfire Smoke Covers Swaths of North America
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In California, a fast-growing wildfire has scorched more than 65,000
acres in the Los Padres National Forest, with the flames fanned by dry,
gusty winds. In Arizona, a wildfire on the North Rim of Grand Canyon
National Park has become the largest active wildfire in the U.S. The
Dragon Bravo Fire has consumed about 125,000 acres since it erupted on
the Fourth of July. Meanwhile, vast swaths of Canada and the United
States are experiencing unhealthy air quality due to wildfires raging
across five Canadian provinces. Smoke from the fires has triggered air
quality alerts for tens of millions of people in cities stretching from
Minneapolis to Boston.


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