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During heavy smoke conditions, everyone’s health is at risk regardless of their age or health status.

Limit time outdoors. Reschedule or cancel outdoor sports, activities and events.

You may experience mild and common symptoms such as eye, nose and throat irritation, headaches or a mild cough. More serious but less common symptoms include wheezing, chest pains or severe cough. If you think you are having a medical emergency, seek immediate medical assistance.

People more likely to be impacted by wildfire smoke, including people aged 65 and older, pregnant people, infants and young children, people with an existing illness or chronic health condition, and people who work outdoors, should avoid strenuous activities outdoors and seek medical attention if experiencing symptoms.

For further information visit the website https://www.airqualityontario.com/ or contact the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks at 416-314-6666.

Visit http://www.airhealth.ca for information on how to reduce your health risk and your personal contribution to pollution levels, as well as for current and forecast AQHI values.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada.

Expect a day of partly cloudy with clear spells

You can expect partly cloudy in the morning, with rain in the afternoon

<p>Traffic along the Highway 401 towards London should be moving smoothly, following a crash Friday morning.</p><p>
Provincial police said at 10:30 a.m. Friday, only one eastbound lane of the highway was open just before Currie Road (exit 149) near Dutton. Both lanes were closed just after 6 a.m. after a crash took place there.</p><p>
As a result of the crash, eastbound traffic was being re-routed off the highway at Graham Road (exit 137) near West Lorne. Provincial police tweeted an update Friday evening, just after 4:30 p.m. that all lanes had been reopened.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">CLEARED Collision: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hwy401?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hwy401</a> EB before Currie Rd <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dutton?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dutton</a> - All lanes open ^jp</p>
— OPPCommunicationsWR (@OPP_COMM_WR) <a href="https://twitter.com/OPP_COMM_WR/status/1093987501369425925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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UPDATE: Eastbound Highway 401 re-opened near Dutton

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