It may be counterintuitive, but smoke can actually help improve bushfire conditions. It's literally smoke and mirrors.
But before you get carried away setting off smoke bombs, the smoke does have its downsides — reduced air quality and reduced visibility, just for starters.
"Obviously the smoke is constantly being produced, so it's not really a significant help to firefighting operations; it's not going to make the situation a whole bunch easier by having smoke. Face masks are a familiar sight in countries like China and Japan. Should Australians consider them to protect their lungs from bushfire smoke?There will be smoke as long as there are fires, and there will be fires until there is widespread rain — unfortunately there's none currently on the forecast for NSW.
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