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Businesswoman Daniela Arcapaccio, who is from Cabo Frio in the Lagos region, has lived in New York for 10 years and said it felt like she was in a terrible event. reported to g 1 That throughout the week the townspeople lived with smoke, and only this Friday (9) the situation began to improve a little.
“The worst day was Wednesday. Several places closed down here. People were wearing masks again and the smell of smoke was very strong. In my apartment, with all the windows closed, I could smell it,” he said.
She lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and took a picture from a window showing the city filled with smoke. See photo below.
One of the worst things, she said, was that she felt affected without even leaving the house: “a cough with a sore throat.”
Political scientist Matthews Marlison, a native of Nova Friburgo, in the Serrana region of Rio, has lived in New York for a year and was working on the house when he noticed that the sky was turning yellow on Tuesday (6).
He says he thought it was just an unusual afternoon. Matthews left to go to the Museum of Natural History and noticed that the sky was very orange.
“I didn’t think it would be anything to worry about yet,” he says, “until I read the news and realized it might be a direct result of the fires in Canada. Then I got worried right away.”
She said it was wrong of New York City not to let residents know what was going to happen the day before. The air quality, according to the scientist, was terrible, making the city the second most polluted in the world that day and leaving New Yorkers anxious.
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Concern about climate change
Brazilians were very concerned about climate change. Daniela said that she watched a series called “Extrapolation” that depicted a future with the effects of global warming and that she never imagined she would experience the reality of what the series depicts.
“I felt like I was in a terrible event,” he said.
“The worst moment was when I realized this could be our new reality, right? With climate change and global warming. I was so sad and scared,” said Daniela.
Friburguense shows the situation in New York due to the smoke of the fire in Canada
For Matthews, the worst moment was finding nearly everyone wearing a mask and goggles on the streets the next morning. He even made a video showing the situation. See the video above.
“As an international who studies and researches the climate crisis, what is already there is becoming clearer — nature has delivered a direct warning in financial capital and global consumerism that the need for action is immediate,” he says.
The political expert said that in some areas of the country, warnings have been made to stay at home and go out only in case of emergency.
“Looking at the weather app on my cell phone, the alert was that the air quality was ‘very unhealthy’ and that it was worse than the day before,” he said.
Although life has returned to normal, Mateus sees the situation as a wake-up call.
” He came up with an apocalyptic and semi-fantasy face, which made people more aware of the subject,” he said.
The situation in New Jersey
The effects of the smoke were also felt in New Jersey, an area about two hours from New York. Dinho Lopez, he spent most of his life in São Pedro da Aldea, also in the Lagos region and moved to the US 3 years ago. He said he had been spending the day normally until he entered a road and noticed a fog.
He said, “I didn’t understand anything, and I started to smell smoke, and I didn’t know what happened.”
The Brazilian in New Jersey records the aftermath of the fire hitting Canada
said the g 1 Who felt his eyes itch and turned to a local newspaper page to find out what had happened and contacted the woman. In addition to the situation in Canada, there was a fire in the area that exacerbated the situation.
Dinho says he had to stop working and the government recommended people wear masks.
“In addition to sending out masks, the government also put out alerts. My son’s school, for example, all things outside were canceled. They asked to avoid leaving the house and in the workplace, and had to leave everything closed. The bank for example, they put a door in and out to avoid Smoke,” he says.
