Localized harm

Personal wood smoke stories

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

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

How is wood smoke affecting you?

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.

Someone please tell me why and how anyone can destroy your life with an outdoor wood boiler …

…the stench permeates your entire home, your clothing, your hair, and you can even taste it.

We can’t open windows even late at night…

In 2010 at age 58 I developed aggressive diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (DLBCL) …

…I have spent perhaps close to $4,000 in the past 3 years trying to alleviate our situation…

My neighborhood is terrible with wood smoke in the winter…

I’m really most sad about how it is affecting our children.

Vancouver, B.C. neighbours insist on heating their house by burning wood …

…the smoke from our neighbors’ fireplace…was blanketing our front and back yards…

Does your neighbor’s wood burning affect you? We want to hear about it!

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

We only ask for your name and email address so we can contact you about your story. We don’t use this information for any other purpose.

We’ll only publish your (first) name if you tell us to. Email addresses are never published.

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