The hazy weather from Canadian wildfires on July 26 is expected to impact children, teenagers, older adults and people with heart or lung disease.

Wildfire smoke is expected to continue to impact Maine until Thursday. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection issued an air quality alert for northern Maine on Tuesday, as air pollution in the region was expected to reach the "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups" level (USG).

Six of the top ten areas in the US with the worst air quality Saturday morning are in New England, according to the government air quality monitor AirNow.

According to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), air quality levels will remain a concern throughout much of the day as smoke continues to move through the state.

"With climate change, high wind, less rain, and high heat here, there's an increased risk of wildfire risk,” Allen Kratz, the project administrator for Blue Hill Peninsula Tomorrow’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan.

Dangerously hot weather is gripping much of the country, with more than 125 million people from the Plains to the Northeast under heat advisories between Sunday and Monday. Meanwhile, air quality alerts are in place from New Jersey up to Maine because of smoke coming down from Canadian wildfires.

The bipartisan bill would establish a new program within the USDA to support loggers who have lost income because of natural disasters.

Two fishermen were rescued Thursday morning off Mount Desert Rock after their boat caught fire. The Coast Guard says they received a mayday call around 9:15 for a report of a fishing vessel on fire with two people on board about 18 miles offshore near the remote island.