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Likhitha P Nair ByExpress News ServiceKOCHI: Its greenery and clean living conditions were one thing Kochi was always proud of. In 2019, there were two fires at the Brahmapuram waste treatment plant—in February and March. The committee asked them to constitute an in-house firefighting facility—with enough manpower and water storage capacity to ensure quick dousing of fires. There is plenty of plastic waste at the yard that heats up in summer and catches fire. Breathing in dangerAccording to Dr Paramez A R, the consultant of pulmonology division at KIMS Hospital, Kochi, these pollutants are slow poison..