Today the city fire department is doing prescribed burns in town.  They are doing them across the street from where I work.  The school I work at is surrounded by forest (in fact, you can’t even see my school unless you know it’s there because the forest is so thick).

The smoke is surrounding us.  I can smell the smoke in my office right now.  You can’t see across the parking lot and people are having a rough time breathing right now.

I always think it’s odd in how they determine how and when to burn.  Why wouldn’t they do this on a weekend when the area is almost vacant?  Why wouldn’t they warn people about how bad it is before coming in?

I think the burns are a good idea but it is a health hazard.