Air quality in Darwin and Palmerston deteriorated to unhealthy levels in recent days amid back-burning ahead of the Top End's fire season.
abc.net.au/news/nt-air-quality-darwin-palmerston-unhealthy/102411316The Northern Territory's two largest cities have recorded unhealthy levels of smoke pollution across Monday and Tuesday, with fuel-reduction burns and bush and grassfires pushing smoke haze across the region.
The satellite city, located south-east of Darwin, also saw air quality hover around unhealthy levels on Tuesday morning for about four hours, before improving again by mid-morning.At one point, both cities recorded a PM2.5 concentration — which is a measure of the tiny particles usually found in smoke — nearly five times higher than the World Health Organization annual air quality guideline.
"They tend to end up at the emergency department or their doctors, and when they come in to see us they tell us this is their worst time of year," she said.
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