#MEwx Air Quiality Alert now in effect

Air Quality Alert

National Weather Service Gray ME

Issued by National Weather Service Caribou ME

1:20 PM EDT Mon Jul 26 2021

Air quality alert is in effect from 12 PM Monday until 5 PM Tuesday.

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has issued an

air quality action day for the following counties... Androscoggin...Central Somerset...Coastal Cumberland...Coastal Waldo. ..Coastal York...Interior Cumberland...Interior Waldo...Interior

York...Kennebec...Knox...Lincoln...Northern Franklin...Northern

Oxford...Sagadahoc...Southern Franklin...Southern Oxford...Southern

Somerset.

THE MAINE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION'S BUREAU OF AIR

QUALITY HAS ISSUED AN AIR QUALITY ALERT . . . UNTIL 5 PM ON TUESDAY JULY 27. . . FOR THE ENTIRE STATE DUE TO SMOKE FROM WILDFIRES INCREASING PARTICLE POLLUTION LEVELS.

THE MAINE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION RECOMMENDS THAT

INDIVIDUALS CONSIDER LIMITING STRENUOUS OUTDOOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS. PEOPLE WHO MAY BE

ESPECIALLY SENSITIVE TO THE EFFECTS OF ELEVATED LEVELS OF POLLUTANTS

INCLUDE THE VERY YOUNG, THE ELDERLY AND THOSE WITH PRE- EXISTING

RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS SUCH AS ASTHMA AND OR HEART DISEASE. THOSE

WITH SYMPTOMS SHOULD CONSIDER CONSULTING THEIR PERSONAL PHYSICIAN.

A TOLL FREE AIR QUALITY HOTLINE HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED SO MAINE

RESIDENTS CAN STAY INFORMED ON THE AIR QUALITY SITUATIONS. THE

TOLL FREE NUMBER IS: 1-800-223-1196.

ADDITIONALLY THE MAINE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION HAS

THE AIR QUALITY FORECAST AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT

WWW.MAINE.GOV/DEP MAINE DOT G O V SLASH D E P CLICK TODAY'S AIR

QUALITY FORECAST.