Backyard Fire Pits Can Put Neighbors At Odds Over Smoke: Block Talk

Patch is crowdsourcing opinions on a classic neighbor dispute: your cozy backyard fire pit versus the person next door who gets all the smoke and none of the s’mores. The column wants to know whether neighbors should give each other a pass for occasional fires, whether a heads-up is common courtesy, or whether asking someone to douse the flames crosses a line.