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After a day of orange haze that cast a pall over New York City, obscuring some of the country’s best-known landmarks with smoke from Canadian wildfires, New Yorkers and others were in store for another day of bad air Thursday. The smoke in major metro areas, including Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., was expected to continue through the day and cause unhealthy air for all groups, the National Weather Service said. “Yesterday, New Yorkers saw and smelled something that has never impacted us on this scale before,” he said at a briefing Wednesday. “From the gloom over Yankee Stadium to the smoky haze obscuring our skyline, we could see it, we could smell it and we felt it. And it was alarming and concerning.” The smoke shrouded New York City's glittering skyline Tuesday into Wednesday, accompanied by the smell of burned ash. Follow live coverage of U.S. air quality conditions and Canada’s wildfires Katie Schaller, who works in Hoboken, New Jersey, but lives in Brooklyn, could tell something was off on her commute home Tuesday night. "It is really strange," she said. "It does feel like we’re in California or somewhere that had wildfires." There are wildfires burning in the U.S., but the smoke that is affecting millions of people in the country is drifting south from Canada, where more than 400 wildfires were burning Wednesday, according to officials there. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an “We expect this to be a multiple-day e...

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