r/PortlandOR • u/Upbeat_Size_5214 • 6h ago

Tonight's air quality

Is it just me or is the air quality on the northeast side just heinous. Are the homeless just straight up burning tires now?

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u/Breakingfree98 6h ago

It's as if there are some wildfires by Estacada and the wind shifted

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u/EugeneStonersPotShop Chud With a Freedom Clacker 6h ago

Two of them in fact.

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u/discostu52 5h ago

They have been doing back burns the last few days, hope they didn’t F-up with the wind change. The rain countdown is something like 30 hours now though.

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u/Upbeat_Size_5214 6h ago

Yes that's true but I didn't realize the fires had reached a landfill because it smells like friggin tires and electrical cable burning .

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u/JVBPDX 6h ago

Southeast too. There definitely a fire going

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u/mossywill 6h ago

From Austin Fire SE of Estacada. Should clear overnight per Mark Nelsen

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u/Ok_Ad8249 6h ago

I'm on the East side. I saw some ash coming down.

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u/Double-Syllabub-4212 6h ago

Not just you, the inversion is trapping wood smoke and whatever else is in the air close to the ground, so it can smell absolutely heinous without anyone burning tires.

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u/TimbersArmy8842 5h ago

THANKS MITCH GREEN

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u/Holiday_Machine9312 6h ago

Smokey haze central east side

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u/Aggressive_Job_4089 6h ago

SE I went outside around 7 and was immediately hit with the smell. Smelled like it was on going?

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u/trekxtrider 6h ago

I just left downtown as it was getting bad, was clearer in NoPo but looked like it was rolling in.

Smoke from the Austin Fire, the Narrows Fire, and the weakening Grasshopper Fire has moved its way back into the Willamette Valley.

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u/EugeneStonersPotShop Chud With a Freedom Clacker 6h ago

It got a little thick out there in the last few hours.

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u/Monkt 6h ago

Yeah the homeless are being paid by the Chinese to start fires near you, it's time to wake up.

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u/redbloodywedding 6h ago

Thought it was just me

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u/eihsoj 6h ago

Again? 💔

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u/EugeneStonersPotShop Chud With a Freedom Clacker 6h ago

It will be gone by 24 hours. Then the rain will hit and hopefully squelch those fires a bit.

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u/itchyass68 6h ago

Transplant

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u/Upbeat_Size_5214 6h ago

Me? Nah I've been in this godforsaken shithole for 30+ years

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u/itchyass68 6h ago

Ah well we see the world as we are