Should I worry if a smell from a burning landfill 5 miles away got in my room?
First of all, thank you all for what you do. The other night I had my room window open, and I started to feel a mild burning smell. It was barely noticeable, so I didn't close my window right away. My air purifier was working at the time, and it's air quality led indicator stayed green. I only closed the window after maybe 30-40 minutes, because I checked the air quality sensor near my building that said the air quality was not good (the maximum it reached was 119 PM2.5 AQI for 10 minutes, the rest of the time it was around 80-90). Later, I read on the news that there was a fire on a landfill that is 8 km (5 miles) away from me,and the whole city was complaining about the smell outside. The day after that, I turned on the air purifier and immediately felt the same smell. Now I'm worried if my air purifier filter could absorb the smell like that, that the particles/toxins concentration was big enough that other stuff would absorb it too ( like my bed, pillows, blankets,etc). I feel a bit of a smell in my room that is similar to that trashy smell. If there is a smell that means there are toxins too, right? I am worried because few years ago there was a fire in my apartment building, and I know how much that stuff is toxic and full of carcinogens,and how you have to change basically everything even if the fire was not in your apartment.