Improvement Noted In Air Quality Around Beetham Landfill - Extreme Caution Still Required

There’s been an improvement in the Air Quality Levels around the Beetham Landfill.

This, from the Environmental Management Authority (EMA) which adds that the Air Quality Level, as of 8:30am on April 8th, as recorded at the EMA’s Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station located at Beetham, is now rated as "Very Unhealthy." The EMA's statement says however this reading is an improvement over yesterday’s measurements which reached hazardous levels.

Despite this, the EMA says extreme caution is still required by all individuals, particularly the elderly, children, and those with respiratory ailments.

Smoke has covered most of the Port of Spain following a fire area which started on Wednesday night at the Beetham landfill.

[shingai]

From hazardous to very unhealthy. Big improvement. Good job 👍

[carlislec.]

Total incompetence, gov't, fire officials.the fire department should extinguish the fire before it got big the same with bush fires, they must have seen the smoke ..

[firekrueger]

Why dont they tape the landfill so that they burn off the methane kind of how they tap an oil well to burn of the excess gas