Air quality at critical levels in the American West

In Portland, the air quality index reaches critical levels above 300 due to smoke from fires.

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Gray, nothing but gray.

Two regular season baseball games scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday in Seattle between the Mariners and the San Francisco Giants have been postponed due to poor air quality caused by fires ravaging the west coast of the United States.

The air quality index (IQAir), deemed poor from 50, greatly exceeds 200 in California, Oregon and Washington state - and even approaches 500 as close as possible to fires.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has argued that breathing the air in the worst-hit areas for a day is like smoking 400 cigarettes.

According to the New York Metro Weather website, smoke even crossed America to reach the Big Apple, where the sun glowed in a hazy sky.

The sun setting in a smokey hazy sky behind the Manhattan Bridge and One World Trade Center in New York City Tuesday evening #nyc #newyork #newyorkcity @agreatbigcity #sunset #wildfires #manhattanbridge pic.twitter.com/Lw6tXywKYq

- Gary Hershorn (@GaryHershorn) September 16, 2020

Los Angeles astronomical observatory threatened

Dozens of fires continued to ravage the American West, and firefighters struggled to contain a blaze that has been burning for more than a week near Los Angeles, threatening to engulf a historic observatory and costly telecommunications towers built on the towering hills. the Californian megalopolis.

This fire, dubbed "Bobcat Fire", was no longer Tuesday morning about 150 meters from the astronomical observatory of Mount Wilson, 116 years old, warned the rescue, stressing that their teams in the field, supported by air assets, were preparing to face the blaze with the help of bulldozers.

According to officials at the observatory, all staff have already been evacuated.

The #BobcatFire is within 500 ft of the Mt. Wilson Observatory & crews are in place ready to receive the fire.

Strategic firing is taking place in the south where air operations are strengthening dozerlines.

Crews are working a spot fire that crossed Hwy 2 near Buckhorn.

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- Angeles_NF (@Angeles_NF) September 15, 2020

A total of 27 fires were still in progress across California.

They have already killed 25 people since mid-August and mobilized more than 16,600 firefighters on Tuesday.

Forest fires of unprecedented magnitude are also ravaging the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

In total, more than two million hectares of vegetation have already been consumed since mid-August from the Canadian border to that of Mexico.

The death toll rises to 35 and risks increasing further.

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