…The worst period of exposure was as a school crossing guard for 7 years…
Our lives and health are no match for the money-making business of wood-fired pizza…
…a close neighbor started outdoor burns in his backyard using a vintage wood stove with an attached, homemade 4.5' smokestack…
We have an imported “Nordic Spa” across the road from us. Several open wood burning fire pits still burning 14 hours a day, 7 days a week.
…even gathering our mail we have to judge if it is “safe” to go outside.…
…Basically it’s impossible to live a normal life when the air is saturated with smoke…
…There is black soot on my window sill which faces the chimney…
If we knew that the air quality was this bad we would have never moved to Comox.
In PEI Canada, the previous Liberal government placed wood boilers beside nursing homes and schools. Where I worked as a nurse in one of these homes, some days you could smell it inside the building.
