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Readers: Send us your hazy photos from the western wildfires

Let us know what you're seeing (and smelling).

Some of the buildings of the Boston skyline are obscured by haze as seen from Fenway Park. Jim Davis / The Boston Globe

By Maya Gacina

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Boston skies fill with haze, smoke, and ash this week from wildfires raging thousands of miles away from western United States and Canada. The air quality alert remains in place for parts of Massachusetts through Monday as air patterns push the wildfire smoke north.

The nation’s largest wildfire, Oregon’s Bootleg Fire, grew to 618 square miles — just over half the size of Rhode Island on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. Fires continue to burn in other areas of the West and in Canada.

Massachusetts officials said the air quality across the state is expected be unhealthy for sensitive groups, such as people with heart or lung diseases, people with asthma, older adults, children, teenagers, and people who are active outdoors. 

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Residents are posting their eerie pics of the Boston skyline and we want to know what everyone else is seeing this week.

Christiana Botic for The Boston Globe
Haze from California wildfires blanketed the Boston area on Monday.
Cambridge, MA — 7/26/21 — Haze from California wildfires blanketed the Boston area Monday afternoon. (Christiana Botic for The Boston Globe)
Haze from the wildfires on the West Coast hangs over the Boston skyline as joggers and bikers in Cambridge enjoy the warm weather. – Suzanne Kreiter / The Boston Globe

Let us know what you’re seeing (and smelling) in the Greater Boston area during the wildfires this week by uploading a photo below or e-mailing [email protected].

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