Residents of the Washington D.C. region woke to a sickly amber haze, the National Zoo closed for the day, and local authorities warned people to stay indoors amid ongoing danger from the smoke of Canadian wildfires.
School districts across the region canceled outdoor recess, physical education, team sports and other activities. Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia’s largest school division, canceled all outdoor school activities but said no outdoor graduations were affected on Thursday. On Wednesday, the school district sent out an alert notifying families that morning graduations would take place outside as planned but that the school division would continue monitoring air quality.
When Maria Salvador, 56, learned on Despierta America that D.C. was blanketed in smoke and haze, she wanted to stay inside. But she runs a smallpop-up store in Columbia Heights, meaning she’s outside most days from around 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. “This is my job and my job needs to get done,” Salvador said. “It is what it is.”
Mike Mancini, 59, and his partner Keegan Mosby, 55, were out walking their dog on Capitol Hill. Mancini, a D.C. tour guide, had taken a group of 8th graders from Michigan to Arlington National Cemetery, but the smoke distorted the usual city skyline view from the Tomb of the Unknowns.“I had to do a double take because it almost looked like the Blue Ridge,” Mancini said. “It was so hazy.”
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