{"id":4783,"date":"2017-09-08T11:34:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2017-09-08T11:35:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T18:35:57","slug":"air-quality-alert-extended-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/air-quality-alert-extended-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Quality Alert Extended Through Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington State Department of Ecology is extending an air quality alert for the Yakima area that is in effect until 10:00 am on Monday, September 11<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The alert is due to wildfires burning in the region, combined with forecasts that call for conditions that could cause air quality to reach unhealthy levels.<\/p>\n<p>Pollutants in smoke can cause burning eyes, runny nose, and aggravate serious health problems such as heart and lung diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Children, the elderly, and individuals with respiratory illnesses are most at risk of serious health effects during the air quality alert.<\/p>\n<p>The alert calls for limiting outdoor activities and keeping children indoors if the air quality is poor.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service said air quality conditions could temporarily improve this weekend due to increased westerly winds.<\/p>\n<p>Information about air quality is on the Washington Department of Ecology website at http:\/\/www.ecy.wa.gov\/air.html or by calling 360-407-6000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Air-Quality-Alert-Extended-Through-Monday-News-Release.pdf\">Air Quality Alert Extended Through Monday &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington State Department of Ecology is extending an air quality alert for the Yakima area that is in effect until 10:00 am on Monday, September 11th. The alert is due to wildfires burning in the region, combined with forecasts that call for conditions that could cause air quality to reach unhealthy levels. Pollutants in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,32,44,23],"class_list":["post-4783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-quality-alert","tag-national-weather-service","tag-smoke","tag-yakima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}