“It looks like Mars outside,” said one Syracuse business owner, describing the poor air quality. New York was hardly the only place to experience the eerie, throat-burning smoke that scientists say could become a more common occurrence in a warming world.
Currently, 1 in 6 Americans live in an area with significant wildfire risk — but many more will face danger in the coming decades, particularly across the South.Smoke particles can travel vast distances, so you may encounter hazardous conditions even if there isn’t a wildfire in your immediate area.
But in cities large and small along the East Coast on Wednesday, there was little to do but to wait, to hope that faraway fires would somehow subside and that the noxious cloud of recent days would soon lift. “It’s like when you swallow sand,” the elder Williams said. “I can feel the phlegm building up in the back of my throat.”“Do you know where the fire is?” asked his grandmother, Donna Williams, 66.Residents and tourists in New York reacted to the Canadian wildfire smoke that continued to veil the city June 7.
Mark Strauss, 58, said the last time he remembers this kind of air quality problem uptown was after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, “when we got smoke from the site downtown,” he said. “You could see the smoke in the sky. It was similar to that.”
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