Collection

2023 CIEC

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

continued to Halloween Sunday. The inversion trapped “a mass of warm, stagnant air . . . .The pollutants in the air mixed with fog to form a thick, yellowish, acrid smog that inhibited thenormal process where the sun would burn off the fog” [31]. On Tuesday and Wednesday, fewnoticed the different quality of this fog, as residents had become accustomed to breathing fetidair and were used to driving mid-day with car headlights on. By Thursday, however, the airturned a sickly yellow and noticeably more viscous. Standing at the corner of Seventh Street andMcKean, attorney Arnold Hirsh watched smoke billowing from a train on the railroad tracksbelow. The plume ascended for six feet and then simply stopped, as if held in place by aninvisible barrier. As