Dear Editor:
In a modern urban “society” the smell of smoke should be deemed an emergency and the fire brigade be alarmed with haste.
It is thus unfair to persons, alarmed by the smell of smoke, especially after some personal investigation finds that a neighbour feels some need for a moment of nostalgic fire gazing or more dangerously assume the smoke be from a fire gazer when it’s a house burning down.
Fireplaces are Peter and a lit fireplace is crying wolf. So let our neighbourhoods not be a village set in folklore.
Frank Burn, New Westminster
