Personal wood smoke stories

Real people experience real harm and a reduced quality of life due to involuntary exposure to wood smoke pollution.

If you are affected by someone else’s wood burning, you are not alone.

What’s your wood smoke story?

Neighbors of wood burners have shared the following stories with us. Use the form below to share your own wood smoke story.

1 Stories total.

Wood stove exchange polluter

…the worst by far is the one next door, which belongs to a North Cowichan Wood Stove Exchange recipient…

Hotel with wood-burning pizza oven

…A county air official agrees with me but says he can’t do anything…

Indoor wood boiler nightmare

NYSDEC and Cuomo won’t address citizen complaints against neighbors who use INDOOR wood boilers…

Campfires aren’t much fun

…It blinds me, I have trouble breathing. It sure isn’t anything I can enjoy…

Chemical analysis

Overall pollution was literally 100 times the city’s background level.

I cough and wheeze all the time

…I attribute my illness to living (abroad) for several years in a street full of ardent wood-burners, esp. a huge high-tech one right next-door.…

Senior veteran affected by smoke

…I have lived in my house for over 20 some years in peace, until new neighbors moved in.…

Anaphylaxis from an OWB

…I was hospitalized last week for anaphylaxis after walking out of my front door into my neighbor’s thick smoke from their outdoor wood boiler…

Backyard fires in Kitchener, Ontario

I live in Kitchener, Ontario a city which permits recreational backyard bonfires…

Share your story

Is your neighbor’s wood burning affecting you? We want to hear about it!

Sharing your wood smoke story helps to increase awareness of the problem.

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