Yes. I wasn't in the affected parts of Australia - I'm on the other side of the continent on the West Coast, the fires were on the East Coast and the South Coast -
but I remember the local news coverage
an older woman getting off a plane at Canberra airport and literally dropping dead on the tarmac/runway from the smoke pollution before she had even made it inside the airport terminal
Australia Post suspending all mail deliveries in Canberra for weeks because the smoke was too bad for the posties to safely do deliveries [they use motorbikes and go along the footpaths]
a woman having a very late term miscarriage in Canberra because of the smoke
Oh, and Canberra didn't even have any fires of its own at the time of all of the above - that was just the smoke pollution blowing in from the fires in neighboring states like Victoria and New South Wales...
no subject
but I remember the local news coverage
an older woman getting off a plane at Canberra airport and literally dropping dead on the tarmac/runway from the smoke pollution before she had even made it inside the airport terminal
Australia Post suspending all mail deliveries in Canberra for weeks because the smoke was too bad for the posties to safely do deliveries [they use motorbikes and go along the footpaths]
a woman having a very late term miscarriage in Canberra because of the smoke
Oh, and Canberra didn't even have any fires of its own at the time of all of the above - that was just the smoke pollution blowing in from the fires in neighboring states like Victoria and New South Wales...