EDMONTON — Alberta has lifted an air quality health advisory that it issued last week because of dense, acrid smoke from forest fires in British Columbia.
Dr. Andre Corriveau, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, says the air quality has greatly improved this week throughout the province.
He says if more smoke drifts in from the B.C. fires in the coming days it probably won’t be enough to be a health hazard.
Corriveau says Alberta only expects trace amounts of smoke may affect air quality over the weekend, according to Bluesky, a smoke forecasting system.
The health advisory last week urged people with respiratory problems to remain indoors and recommended that healthy people curtail physical activity outside.