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Andrea Plamondon's avatar

The insanity knows no bounds....We always had a wood stove back east, for the cold winters, but when we moved west to Arizona, we had a terrible time with a neighbor who burned wet wood and trash regularly in their fireplace. The air was so bad and the dark smoke went up our driveway, and all the way down the street . They also burned outside 24/7 and we could not use our swamp cooler in the summer because of the non stop smoke. So for two years we suffered greatly. One neighbor who was renting moved out. We even had to wear masks to get to our car because the smoke burnt our throats and eyes. Eventually enough people complained so the neighbor toned it down a bit. They used to use natural gas, but got a bunch of free wood and burned and burned and burned. I guess my point is if you don't burn dry wood and have a chimney that draws it can be a nightmare for your neighbors. The town has 100 year old laws on the books for when it was sparsely populated, but now it's really growing, and the air quality is not good anymore. Years ago in New England, people put in outdoor wood burning furnaces which really belched smoke like a locomotive, and there were a lot of law suits, because people were getting sick from their neighbors smoke. The smell of dry wood burning is much different than what I am describing, and anyone who thinks they might not mind, hasn't experienced it. All that's required is for people to have a little consideration and burn responsibly.

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Peter Imanuelsen's avatar

Interesting perspective, thank you for posting!

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