and soldiers are dying to rescue them.

“The wind is going to drag that smoke down over the next day or two,” Doom added.Doom said a little haze was showing Friday morning over Chicago.

“It will keep moving with the wind,” he continued. “But over time, it will continue to disperse, mix in with the air until it gets thinner and thinner until it fades away.”in California, Oregon, Arizona, Washington state and other parts of the West, as well as Canada, filled the skies with smoke and haze, forcing some affected areas to declare air quality alerts or advisories.Two years ago, smoky air from wildfires in Canada

of the U.S. and prompted warnings for people to stay inside.Williams reported from Detroit. Raza reported from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A work crew of incarcerated people cleared the way for a woman and her three children to finally leave their rural Oklahoma property more than a week after a tornado caused widespread damage, state officials said.

The crew was still at work Friday after clearing numerous downed trees on Tuesday to give the family a road out from their home in the community of Blanco, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections said. About a dozen tornadoes touched down in the state on May 19 asbetween 1992 and 2024, according to the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut, and thousands more are sickened each year. This summer has been especially bad, with five high school players dying since July of suspected heat-related illnesses,

who collapsed during drills last month at his Alabama high school practice.“I just want to know what really happened that day. What was he doing? From the autopsy and the doctor’s standpoint, what did y’all see what was going on? You know, I just want answers,” said Wilkins’ mother, Regina Adams.

found that high school football players are 11 times more likely to suffer heat illnesses than all other sports combined.Experts believe football players are more vulnerable because they wear heavy equipment that traps heat and have bigger body sizes that produce more heat, especially offensive and defensive lineman who can can weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They also may not yet be fully acclimated to working out in summer conditions, sometimes play on artificial turf which increases the heat and may have underlying health conditions.