When you smell a house or car burning in the distance, are you inhaling various heavy metals and chemicals?

Question

Tonight, when driving at around 12:00 PM, I could smell something burning, albeit somewhat faintly. As it was so late, there's no way somebody was burning leaves or incinerating their garbage......which makes me think that a car had caught fire, or even a house. If that's the case, was I no doubt inhaling a brew of toxins and poisons...? Dioxins, heavy metals, etc?

I was in the area for approximately around three minutes, but took shallow breaths. Could any bioaccumulation of substances have occurred in my body, or any damage have been dealt?

Answer 1

When you see firemen putting out a car fire they appear not to put on their breathing apparatus. If they feel that it's safe to get that close, I don't think that you have anything to worry about.

Answer 2

YEH AND ITS RELI DANGEROUS