SOUTH CAROLINA — Officials with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control have issued a Code Red Air Quality Alert for multiple counties throughout the state, including York and Chester.
Health officials say smoke plumes from wildfires that continue to burn in the southern Appalachian Mountain Regions of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee are creating unhealthy breathing conditions for residents within some areas.
Officials with SCDHEC have issued a Code Red (unhealthy) alert for the following South Carolina counties:
Abbeville, Aiken, Allendale, Anderson, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chester, Edgefield, Fairfield, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Lexington, McCormick, Newberry, Oconee, Orangeburg, Pickens, Richland, Saluda, Spartanburg, Union, and York.
A Code Orange (unhealthy for sensitive groups) has also been issued for the following counties:
Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton, Jasper, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Sumter, and Williamsburg.
For information about the areas affected by the smoke, along with the location and current conditions of the wildfires, please click here. You can also get more information about smoke and its health effects here.
