davis_square | where there's smoke...? (Reply)

Last night, going to bed around midnight, we smelled smoke—like wood or paper burning smoke—up around Powder House and Packard. It was almost pleasant; it smelled like camping. But by 5am, the smell was so strong we woke up coughing and sneezing, put handkerchiefs over our noses and mouths, and closed the windows, making it hot and stuffy inside, but at least not too noxious to fall back to sleep.

Did anyone else experience this?

In fact we smell light smoke around bedtime in that area not infrequently. Does someone burn their rubbish in that area? (And if it's you, could you please, pretty-pretty-please, stop?) I sorta suspect that home-rubbish-incineration is illegal for exactly this reason.

Anyway, last night's was particularly terrible, and I'm wondering if maybe there was an actual house-fire this time in the area. Anyone know anything?