Wood smoke stories from Australia

…This is the result of “burn better.” It doesn’t work!

The mental and emotional toll, as well as physical impacts of this experience, still plague me personally…

My neighbour commissioned a new fire pit and the prevailing coastal breeze fills the house with toxic smoke…

…The occupant of one of the houses with three or four separate wood heaters, a fire pit and a wood smoker didn’t like being notified of a complaint…

…I am slowly suffocating and nobody cares…

Here we have smoke from other people’s wood fires for most of the day for at least 8 months of the year..

…I have just bought a $3,000 purifier that I cannot afford but I cannot endure the next 5 months without one…

My neighbours have their wood fire going for 16 hours every day each year for five months. It is relentless…