Officials announced public schools in Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey will be closed Thursday to protect students from the hazardous conditions.
until Thursday. A National Women's Soccer League game in New Jersey and an indoor WNBA game set for Brooklyn were also called off Wednesday.
"I put my mask away for over a year, and now I'm putting on my mask since yesterday," the 31-year-old lamented. U.S. National Weather Service meteorologist Zach Taylor said the current weather pattern in the central and eastern U.S. is essentially funneling in the smoke. Some rain should help clear the air somewhat in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic this weekend or early next week, though more thorough relief will come from containing or extinguishing the fires, he said.
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