Personal wood smoke stories
I can’t have my windows open and my whole area smells of burning wood…
…When we came here, the air was fresh. Now, more and more of our neighbours have taken to wood burning…
This job entailed exposure to quite a few houses with wood burning fireplaces or outdoor fire pits/brush burning…
The smell and noxious smoke are persistent every day 24/7 — in a very densely populated area.
The wood burning in Bethel Park, PA was sometimes 24/7, day in day out, all hours of the day and night, all year round…
Over the past 25 years the population of our valley has exploded and with it, the use of wood for home heating…
My neighbors use their fireplace all day every day from October to May…
We had to move from our house that we loved…
They burn 365 days of the year, including up to 14 hours a day in summer and 24 in winter..…
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