Yeah, this seems not-terrible - most of the serious health concerns with fires are with wood stoves, where smoke either enters a house directly or leaves a chim

Yeah, this seems not-terrible - most of the serious health concerns with fires are with wood stoves, where smoke either enters a house directly or leaves a chimney and settles back into it. From the article up there I get the sense that wood fires inflict a lot of particulates even when you can't smell smoke, but open-air fires are still way safer (on this level) than in-home ones.