The pollution episode will continue in Toulouse (and not only), the alert procedure maintained

Doubt still hovered yesterday over the duration of the pollution episode which affected Toulouse and the Haute-Garonne since Tuesday January 14, 2025. If this Friday January 17 constitutes a real peak, for which the prefect of Haute-Garonne responded with emergency measures, vigilance should not be confined to just 24 hours.

The Agency Atmo Occitanie extends its alert procedure in Haute-Garonne as well as in the Tarn-et-Garonne for Saturday January 18, 2025, due to weather conditions that are still unfavorable for the dispersion of suspended particles emitted into the air, particularly by heating appliances.

Rates will remain high tomorrow

At the start of the weekend, the levels of these suspended particles (PM10) – the most toxic, Editor's note – should remain high in these two departments of Occitanie.

And their impact is no less. In Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), Wednesday January 15, industrial snow even fell, the result of pollution. On Thursday, the neighboring department of Haute-Garonne had returned to the threshold of the information procedure, but it returned to the alert procedure this Saturday.

Sports activities and travel to be limited

Therefore, Atmo renews its recommendations. Sensitive and vulnerable people, such as pregnant women, children or even seniors, must, again, avoid travel on major roads and their surroundings during peak periods.

They are also called upon to limit intense physical and sporting activities, both outdoors and indoors, and to postpone activities that require the most effort. The shorter the outings, the better.

And the advice also applies to the less fragile inhabitants of Haute-Garonne and Tarn-et-Garonne. Atmo call for reduce activities physical, to postpone the work maintenance and cleaning requiring the use of solvents, paints and varnishes. Just like the agricultural sector will have to postpone its fertilizer application and soil work.

It also requires respecting the ban on open fires and stopping, during heating periods, the use of non-efficient biomass combustion devices such as stoves.

In terms of travel, here again, public transport and other gentle modes of travel are to be preferred. Cycling and walking on the podium. For necessary car journeys, Atmo recommends carpooling.

In the event of respiratory or cardiac discomfort (shortness of breath, wheezing, palpitations), seek advice from your pharmacist or consult your doctor or consult the Air Santé hotline at: 0561779444.

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