Wood smoke stories
Stories tagged:
Smoke infiltration
Wood smoke led to child’s medical emergency
…my then 12-year old daughter who is asthmatic couldn’t breathe and her inhaler made no difference…
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.
Acrid smoke in Norwich
…both our back and front gardens are filled with thick, acrid smoke that makes your eyes sting and your throat sore.
No right to clean air
I have asthma and struggle to breathe throughout the cold months due to my neighbours’ chimney smoke…
Trapped inside with taped up windows
From March to October I’ve had to tape up every window in our house to stop the smoke from neighbouring chimneys…
Wood heaters and planned burns
The smoke from a neighbour’s wood heater fills the house… Planned burns by government reduce the air quality for days on end…
Wood smoke and illness
My next door neighbor burns wood. During the winter his stove is running 12–18 hours straight.
No escaping wood smoke in Victoria, Australia
I left the area, only to be faced with woodsmoke issues from wood stoves and fire pits in the new area.
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…