An indoor wood-burning fireplace offers ambiance, warmth and relaxation. But even with all those benefits, heating fires were the second leading cause of home fires in 2021. An estimated 32,200 ...

LOS ANGELES — A ban on indoor and outdoor wood burning in much of Southern California has been extended through Friday due to a forecast of high air pollution in the area, air quality regulators ...

The ban on burning wood began Christmas Day and was extended Thursday until 11:59 p.m. Friday, according to the South Coast Air Quality Management District.

Design Gas and Electric Fireplaces Are the Future. We Asked Design Pros How to Make Them Seem Real. Facing stricter restrictions on wood-burning fireplaces, interior designers are learning to ...

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.

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

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 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.