A peat fire burning in Port Macquarie for 210 days has been declared completely out.
"No one in my family has asthma, I've never had asthma," she said.
"My voice wasn't like this before; I could speak clearly and enunciate clearly before, but now I can't.extremely concerning for Paola Borwell and her husband who are expecting their first child"Smoke does get into your house and you're constantly worried and on alert thinking that it's going to affect not only myself but my baby," Ms Borwell said.
She said air purifiers were sold out everywhere or too expensive to buy so the only way she could manage was to stay indoors. "[We tried] things like air-conditioning and a dehumidifier and just trying to keep the smoke out of the house in terms of closing the windows and putting towels under doors and things," she said."There was a point where we actually considered going to Sydney for a while because I'm originally from there but of course, Sydney got just as bad."
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