That Backyard Fire Pit and Dinosaurs

That Backyard Fire Pit and Dinosaurs

Letter to the Editor

If your neighbour is lighting that backyard fire pit, it means that you are living in a city that has not taken pro-active action to prohibit all outdoor open air burning. It means you are living in a community where the Public Health Issue of Woodsmoke Pollution is not being acknowledged or addressed as a grave health threat to all residents. Lighting up a fire pit, fire ring, fire bowl, chimenea, Wood fuelled BBq, Wood smoker, back yard bonfire, outdoor fire place or any Woodburning device means that your neighbour (or if you are the person lighting the device) is responsible for polluting the air with cancer causing toxins throughout entire neighbourhoods.

Lighting up any fire pit comes at the high price of others suffering, even the possibility of illness and death for many who suffer from Asthma, COPD, respiratory, pre-existing cardiopulmonary, cardiovascular, Stroke and other diseases that are associated with Woodburning and the inhalation of toxic Woodsmoke emissions.

Lighting up fire pits comes at the cost to our struggling health care system, when people become ill from breathing residential Woodsmoke and require emergency hospital care. It comes at the expense of the physical suffering of others who spend endless hours being exposed to the deadly chemicals found in Woodsmoke. It comes at a cost to our fragile environment.

For those unaware, Woodsmoke is a Public and Private Nuisance. When residential Woodsmoke is present in your community, do not suffer in silence. Take immediate pro- active action by calling 9-1-1 and report any and all Woodburning as a Nuisance and a threat to your health and life. Call your city hall and inform your Mayor and city council members that all biomass burning in residential neighbourhoods is not acceptable, necessary or wanted.

Take the upcoming July lst-Canada Day-to become informed about the dangers of back yard fire pits and all outdoor open air burning. Demand that by-laws be adopted to ban all outdoor open air burning in your city and Province. We all deserve the right and common decency to breathe healthy-Woodsmoke-free.

That backyard fire pit and all Woodburning should become extinct…like dinosaurs.

Linda Baker Beaudin, Air Is Precious

Source: The Daily Observer Pembroke, Ontario
(Serving the Upper Ottawa Valley)
Posted...June 22, 2011