Best Indoor Fireplace Safety Tips We spoke with Leroy Hite, CEO and founder of Cutting Edge Firewood in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, to get his top tips for indoor wood-burning fireplace safety.

While burning, these fireplaces can exhaust as much as 300 cubic feet of heated indoor air to the outside your home per minute, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Erica Burns, a Bethesda, Md., designer, says she has seen an increasing interest in old-fashioned, wood-burning fireplaces. “Gas fireplaces seemed to have been big over the last 10 or 20 years.

New regulations apply to wood-burning fireplaces specifically. In March the South Coast Air Quality Management District passed Rule 445, which regulates permanent indoor and outdoor wood-burning ...

The lure of cozy, wood-burning fireplaces that go snap, crackle and pop vs. pushing a button for gas.

The AQMD blames the estimated 1.4million wood-burning fireplaces and stoves across its four-county service area for releasing an average of six tons of fine particles a day in 2006.

The AQMD blames the estimated 1.4million wood-burning fireplaces and stoves across its four-county service area for releasing an average of six tons of fine particles a day in 2006.