When air quality is rated as “very unhealthy”, health officials recommend that people with respiratory or heart disease, the elderly, and children should avoid any outdoor activity; everyone else should avoid prolonged exertion.
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Fire chief Jeff Miller said this morning that no forest fires are burning in the immediate Butte area.
Some of the smoke, according to Schmitt, is coming from the Wildhorse Point Fire, burning south of Huson.
An Air Quality Alert was issued for Beaverhead, Deer Lodge, Granite, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Madison, Missoula, Powell, Ravalli, and Silver Bow counties until 4 p.m. Saturday due to elevated particulate concentrations.
DEEP announced Friday in a press release that New Haven County is projected poor air quality on Saturday, August 15 and Monday, August 17.
Weather forecasters said sunny skies, light winds and warm temperatures will combine to elevate ozone levels into the unhealthy-for-sensitive-groups range.
Air quality in Libby and Flathead Valley is now UNHEALTHY FOR SENSITIVE GROUPS.
Katie Skipper with the Northwest Clean Air Agency says most people aren’t bothered by moderate air quality.
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Though the area may have smelled vaguely like a campfire, Helena Lovick, along with her children Lauren, 2, and Lucas, 7 months, and friend Adrea Nevin, were walking along Gibson Park.
