The Environmental Health Department's Air Quality Program has issued a health alert due to smoke from an eastern Arizona wildfire causing elevated levels of particulate matter in Albuquerque.
Health officials say the alert is in effect through noon Friday.
Satellite imagery Thursday showed a large plume of smoke from Cedar Fire near Show Low, Arizona moving toward central New Mexico.
That smoke was expected to settle into the Rio Grande Valley on Thursday night, reducing visibility across the Albuquerque metro area.
Health officials say people most sensitive to particulate pollution include young children, adults age 65 and over, pregnant women and those with heart and/or lung disease, asthma or other respiratory illness.
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