Marilyn Howarth of the Perelman School of Medicine weighed in on the potential health impacts of a recent junkyard fire in Philadelphia. “I think there’s no question that anyone in the immediate environment of the fire certainly would have been exposed to high levels of particulates and perhaps higher than ideal levels of other chemicals,” she said. “As the smoke drifted away, it does tend to disperse, and the levels are lower.”
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