An actress who grew up in Mapperley and now lives in New York has told how she was forced to stay in for days after a dense toxic smog from Canadian wildfires descended on the US city. Rachel Grant, who appeared as a Bond girl in the film Die Another Day with Pierce Brosnan and starred in the BBC hospital drama Casualty, took the hazy skyline to be a sunrise at first.
She said: "We were in fact admiring the orange sky one morning thinking it was a really beautiful sunrise. Little did we know. I even took my dogs for a walk in it. Funny how our perspective changed once we knew.
"New York should have been bright blue sky and warm weather, instead we were living with a big hazy cloud over us. It did go away for a couple of days over the weekend but yesterday the air quality got worse again - today it appears to be better, but it could come back because the fires are still ongoing. So as much as it’s not as smoggy as it was, it is still lingering.
