Tweet Smoke from forest fires in the B.C. Interior poured into the Lower Mainland on Thursday, stinging eyes, obscuring the North Shore Mountains and triggering more air-quality warnings for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. Weather conditions funnelled the smoke down river valleys from the Interior to the coast, the forests ministry’s wildfire management branch [...]

Tweet Metro Vancouver has issued its first air-quality advisory for 2010, prompted by smoke from the province’s massive forest fires. “We haven’t seen smoke levels like this in a little while,” said Laurie Bates-Frymel, Metro Vancouver’s air-quality planner. “People tell me it smells like a campfire out there.” The air-quality index reached 6 – or [...]

Tweet Air quality in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley Regional District has deteriorated due to smoke from forest fires in B.C.’s interior, Metro Vancouver officials said as they issued an air quality advisory Wednesday. Elevated levels of particulate matter have been detected at air quality monitoring stations throughout the region, particularly in the eastern [...]

Tweet Air quality in Metro Vancouver is forecast to deteriorate to “moderate” levels by Thursday night and into Friday, according to monitoring data released by the province. The air quality will drop to a level of five on the B.C. air quality scale of one to 10. “Moderate” readings are between four and six. The [...]