the folks who have houses that were in that smoke plume have no idea what they are in for ... smoke is nothing more than a mixture of microscopic particles ... those particles fall to the ground sooner or later and cover everything ...
where i live, the forest fires in surrounding states had been continuously sending their smoke to where we live and every day, after simply driving for a few minutes, our cars would be covered with a very fine film of very fine gray soot ... naturally, we also breathed in that same soot and it was absorbed into our lungs ... [smoke alerts kept advising folks to stay indoors]
everything in that battery plant fire smoke plume will be finely coated with a highly toxic witches brew of lithium compounds and other compounds ... people there are going to slowly sicken and die and their properties will become worthless ... by then, there will be nobody to sue ... in the mean time, though,Trump 47 needs to make sure that the Feds don’t cover this up due to their irrational love of highly toxic lithium battery technology ...
I remember when I started my new job last year. Even though I work it remotely in Florida, I started by spending 3 months in the office in Silver Spring, Maryland. Late in that period, the Canadian wildfire smoke came down, and it was eerie driving down I-270 from Gaithersburg and actually seeing discrete clouds of smoke going by my car window.
Worst of all is the hydrogen fluoride. Exposure to skin or by inhaling, HF can result in skin burns and lung damage that can take time (hours to weeks) to develop following exposure.