More than 8.7 million acres, an area larger than the state of Vermont, have burned.
Unusually hot, dry weather that wouldn't stop gave rise to the wildfires.
The Quebec-area fires are big and relatively close, about 500 to 600 miles from Rhode Island and they followed wildfires in Nova Scotia.Smoke from fires in western Canada have been drifting into the United States for weeks. But it's recent fires in Quebec that have produced the dangerous east coast haze.
"The timing of this weather patterns is unfortunately overlapping with a situation that was ripe for large fires," Thornton said. Much of what we see in the air and measure is small particles, or PM 2.5. These are so small they can get deep into the lungs, where oxygen enters your circulation.
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