With luck we’ll get a bit of “fresh” air throughout in the next hour or so, before the smoke returns. But I can still taste smoke in the back of my mouth, and the heaviness in my lungs remains. Almost as surreal is walking past two men one evening outside a pub, standing in the thick smoke, smoking. Facebook Twitter Pinterest People wear face masks in response to bushfire smoke haze in Sydney. In the first days of the smoke, a visiting tourist wearing a large black face mask was vox-popped on television.

Source: The Guardian December 06, 2019 18:56 UTC