The fire in the scrap yard was bumped up to Level Four later

Close to a year after the city reeled under a cloud of smog following the massive blaze at the Deonar dumping ground, the choke’s on us again. If the poor air quality took a sharp enough rise to rival New Delhi’s last year, a fortnight into 2017 and coupled with the winter winds, the Mankhurd fire worsened the Air Quality Index of Mumbai to 337 yesterday, making it ‘very poor’ on the advisory index. The air might get worse in the coming days.