Wildfire smoke posed a very high health risk to residents of Steinbach on Tuesday morning. That is according to the Air Quality Health Index or AQHI. According to the Manitoba Lung Association, the AQHI is based on the combined levels of three different air pollutants.

As thousands more people are airlifted out of northern Manitoba communities because of wildfires, smoke is causing a haze in much of the province, making the air dangerous to breathe.

While wildfire smoke continues to shroud much of Manitoba and suppress extreme temperatures in farm regions, agricultural leaders say the benefits to crops come with deep concern for families and communities being driven from their homes.

Six members of Congress from Wisconsin and Minnesota have asked Canada to say how it plans to tackle the blazes and reduce the haze billowing south.

Weekend wildfire smoke produced some of the worst air pollution ever recorded in MN originally appeared on Bring Me The News. The smoke from Canadian wildfires produced some of the worst fine particle pollution on record in Minnesota over the weekend.

Six Republican Congress members callously urged Canada to take “proper action” to mitigate smoke wafting into the U.S.

Canadian wildfire smoke is travelling south and making it difficult for some Americans to enjoy their summer, according to a letter from six members of Congress to Canada's ambassador in Washington."We write to you today on behalf of our constituents who have had to deal with suffocating Canadian wildfire smoke filling the air to begin the summer,

Adam Penner, president of Harv's Air pilot training school, said the planes are equipped with radios, but it appears the two pilots didn't see each other.