PHILADELPHIA—The Philadelphia Department of Public Health has declared that residents living in the area of Foulkrod and Duffield Streets can return to their normal routines. The fire caused no recorded rise in the amount of particulate matter, or PM 2.5, or other criteria pollutants at any of the City’s monitors. Additionally, no toxic compounds were identified at the site of the fire at levels that would pose a threat to human health.

Health Department inspectors collected an air sample in the immediate vicinity of the fire before it was brought under control. This sample was run through the Air Management laboratory’s GC-MS, or gas chromatography–mass spectrometer. The results of that test showed that no toxic compounds were identified in quantities that would threaten human health.

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