Firepits a nuisance to one’s neighbors

A reader tells us he is not happy with a neighbor who smells smoke and fears a dangerous fire when smelling smoke from his firepit [“Firepit smoke irks my neighbor,” Musings, Aug. 11]. He says he just wants to sit around it with a drink and s’mores, implying there’s no harm in it.

I have a neighbor with a firepit. While I have not complained to the fire department or to my neighbor, mainly because I don’t want difficulty with neighbors, I too fear fire when I smell smoke.

I dash out of my house, look around at the roof, look over at neighbors’ houses, scan the sky for evidence of fire, and then I see the telltale smoke wafting from the other side of my neighbor’s house, from their driveway where they park their firepit.

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