Montreal issues air quality warning from scrapyard fire in east end - BERITAJA

A scrapyard occurrence successful Montreal’s eastbound extremity has led to preventive lockdowns of each wellness accommodation successful the area.

Montreal’s nationalist wellness section issued an aerial value alert aft an outdoor vehicle-recycling works caught occurrence early this greeting adjacent Highway 40.

Anik Vaillancourt pinch the city’s occurrence section says 24 occurrence trucks and 55 firefighters were dispatched to power the fire, which was still burning by 11 a.m.

Quebec’s Environment Department says it thinks the occurrence was caused by a lithium artillery and dispersed to piles of scrap metal.

It adds that the occurrence was contained to the scrapyard though heavy clouds of achromatic fume dispersed an acrid smell crossed the metropolis and the Montérégie area.

The department’s emergency squad locked down each wellness accommodation successful the area arsenic a preventive measure.

According to the IQAir website, the aerial value adjacent Highway 40 successful Montreal is considered unhealthy for delicate groups.