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author:
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- Gail Roth
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- Gail Roth
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customMessage: Wildfire smoke concentrations have reduced over the past
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24 hours. Smoke may continue to be visible near active fires and in
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southeastern BC due to smoke from the Sunset fire in northern Idaho.
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date: 2025-08-16
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ice: End
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lastWarning: 20315
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location: Regions on Vancouver Island - Port Alberni and Comox Valley
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through Nanoose Bay
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params:
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customMessage: "`Custom message.`"
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ice: End
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lastWarning: 2025-02-10
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location: Multiple locations in B.C.
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sel_aqMet: Sakshi Jain
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sel_healthAuth:
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- First Nations Health Authority
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- Northern Health
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sel_healthAuth: Vancouver Island Health Authority
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title: Air Quality Warning - Wildfire Smoke
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toc-title: Table of contents
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type: wildfire_smoke
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Copyright 2025 Province of British Columbia
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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-->
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<!-- Logo header, the layout-col should be set based on number of logos including FHNA and BCGov-->
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<!-- the trailing slash means the text in square brackets is alt text -->
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::: {layout-ncol= 3 layout-valign="bottom"}
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![Government of British Columbia logo](/assets/logo_BCID_V_RGB_pos.png)\
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![First Nations Health Authority logo](/assets/logo_FNHA.png)\
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![Vancouver Island Health Authority logo](/assets/logo_VIH.png)\
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:::
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This Air Quality Warning for wildfire smoke that was last updated on
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August 15, 2025 has ended.
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Wildfire smoke concentrations have reduced over the past 24 hours. Smoke
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may continue to be visible near active fires and in southeastern BC due
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to smoke from the Sunset fire in northern Idaho.
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Real-time air quality information is available on the [BC Air Quality
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website](https://gov.bc.ca/airqualityhealthindex).
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# Contact information
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**Media and public inquiries regarding air quality and the Air Quality
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Warning for wildfire smoke:**
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{{< card_start width="wide" >}}
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Gail Roth`<br />`{=html}Senior Air Quality
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Meteorologist`<br />`{=html}Ministry of Environment and
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Parks`<br />`{=html}250-645-9358
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{{< card_end >}}
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**Media questions regarding health implications of wildfires:**
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{{< card_start width="wide" >}}
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Vancouver Island Health Authority`<br />`{=html}Dominic Abassi:
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250-755-7966 (Dominic.abassi@viha.ca)`<br />`{=html}Andrew Leyne:
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250-370-8908 (Andrew.leyne@viha.ca)`<br />`{=html}After-hours media
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line: 250-716-7750`<br />`{=html}
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{{< card_end >}}

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