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Posted by Nancy Comenitz on
Monday, May 31st, 2010 at 9:01pm.
I find it pretty frightening that the haze I see outside my window is really a cloud of smoke coming down from Quebec Canada, 397 miles away. Walking outdoors today there was a distinct smell of smoke in the air. Yesterday the smoke covered Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The northeast winds sent the smoke as far as the Cape and the Islands today, causing visibility to be reduced to about three miles in places.
An air quality alert had been issued by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection for northern Worcester, Middlesex, Essex, Suffolk, Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes, and eastern Norfolk counties. The smoke was being generated from more than 52 forest fires in northern Quebec. Nine of the forest fires remain out of control.
Fire departments across the state were inundated with calls of fires all day today. They kept reassuring people the smoke was coming from Quebec, Canada. The wind patterns are expected to change on Monday afternoon and push the smoke out to sea. But to all those people thinking there was a fire near their home, and for those people having difficulty breathing, the world became much smaller these past two days.
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