CAROLINA FOREST, S.C. (WPDE) — Crews from multiple agencies have cut the fire line to separate the forest with the wildfire from the homes and neighborhoods. What it cannot do is stop the smoke.
Tiffany Baccari lives right next to the fire line, which means she gets full on smoke anytime a hotspot ignites.
“I still have this insanely scratchy throat. My eyes are burning. I know I’m going to be developing something after this,” said Tiffany Baccari, a Walker Woods resident in Carolina Forest.
It’s the struggle for so many in the Carolina Forest area, and one with an unknown expiration date.
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“I’ve been trying to put the damp towels in front of my glass window in my house, but the smoke is so thick that it’s still seeping through and I wake up and I’m like, did I sleep in a bonfire?”
As a mother, Tiffany’s main concern is her children.
“My son, he actually sprayed the nasal spray up his nose, blew it, and it almost looked like black in there. So we just kept clearing it out to the neti pot to clear everything out from the smoke smell, I mean.”
She bought humidifiers, purifiers, and diffusers to help clear the smoke from her home and especially, her children’s bedroom.
“I actually put them in the room at night, put the humidifiers on full speed, um, with the purifier in the room, doors closed, towel in front of the door, damp towel just to absorb. And in the morning I walk in, it’s no smoke smell at all, so they’ve been safe.”
Many Carolina Forest residents can all agree on one thing for certain, they will be happy when all the smoke clears.
