Air quality in the eastern and southeastern areas of Bucharest was seriously affected by the fire that ravaged the warehouse of the ‘Red Dragon’ shopping complex, as air masses loaded with particulate matter moved towards the city, the National Agency for Environment and Protected Areas (ANMAP) announced on its Facebook page on Wednesday.

Air monitoring stations recorded a surge in suspended particulate matter levels on Wednesday morning, that reached approximately 170 ug/m3 for PM10 and 150 ug/m3 for PM2.5 at 11:00 am.

„The values specific to the area where the monitoring is carried out should be below 100 ug/m3 for PM10 and below 70 ug/m3 for PM2.5,” Bogdan Gird, head of the ANMAP Air Quality service told AGERPRES.

Three ANMAP air quality mobile labs are monitoring the main pollution indicators in the Bucharest area in the aftermath of the aforementioned fire. The agency is continuously monitoring the evolution of air quality through the stations of the National Air Quality Monitoring Network.

The results of the measurements conducted on site by the air quality autolab will be released on the institution’s website and Facebook pages as soon as they are available.

According to experts of Bucharest’s County Environment Directorate, the mobile lab monitors suspended particles, nitrogen oxides, benzene, hydrogen sulfide and ammonia.

AGERPRES