To the Editor:

The onset of cooler fall weather on Long Beach Island has again been accompanied by the return of the “Firepit Brigade,” the contingent of residents who insist on burning wood fires in their backyard chimineas and fouling the air with acrid smoke across a 10- to 20-block radius.

Worse than the choking smoke from the wood fires, however, is the irrational municipal ordinance regulating such recreational fires.

September 30, 2020