Wood smoke stories
Stories tagged:
Mental distress
Breathless and traumatized
I can’t breathe due to my asthma and allergies… everything smells like wood smoke…
Driven from Adelaide by wood smoke
…I was closing internal doors, using wet towels under the gaps below the doors and retreating to the least affected room….
Despair in Queensland
I am an elderly person who has suffered from wretched chimney smoke for over 10 years now… It’s like living in some kind of hell.
A massive physical and mental impact
My children and I are currently prisoners of our home due to our neighbours’ fireplace…
Damaged health and distress in Maine
I have next door neighbors who have a fire pit in which they burn brush and yard debris 4 to 5 days a week for 6–12 hours a day…
Cancer with wood smoke
So we pay the price for ignorance, poor ordinance, years of fighting for our property rights, the stress, the duress, the financial burdens, and now the physical death of my husband…
Pizza restaurant smokes out home
Our lives and health are no match for the money-making business of wood-fired pizza…
Dreading autumn in Sydney suburb
I never noticed how bad residential wood fire smoke could get until I moved to a certain Sydney suburb many years ago now.
Chimney right next to bedroom window
Our neighbour installed a wood burner where the flue exits close to our main bedroom window…