Archive for February, 2009

Ex-ski bum has fix for wood-stove pollution - San Francisco Gate

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Friday, February 27, 2009 Off the mountain, Grahn was making money building wood-burning stoves, and he was vexed by what he saw: The more efficiently a stove burned wood, the more noxious the emissions. Thirty years later, Grahn, a biology professor …


Ex-ski bum has fix for wood-stove pollution - San Francisco Chronicle

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Ex-ski bum has fix for wood-stove pollution
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA
Dennis Grahn was taking time off from graduate school to be a ski bum when he became intrigued with the idea of reducing pollutants from wood-burning stoves. Off the mountain, Grahn was making money building wood-burning stoves, and he was vexed by


Arriba, Pandalus Borealis, Arriba! - gourmet.com

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

gourmet.com
Arriba, Pandalus Borealis, Arriba!
gourmet.com, New York
We cranked up the heat on the wood stove. Squeezed half a dozen limes from our grocery’s reduced-price produce rack. Tossed the shrimp with some chopped cilantro, garlic, and onions and shook our hips to a little La Bamba. A few hours later,


Danvers historic home suffers damage, but OK after fire - Danvers Herald

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

The Clark Farm family home on Hobart Street in Danvers, one of the oldest homes remaining in the United States, suffered extensive smoke damage but no structural damage as a result of a small chimney fire Thursday afternoon. Bill Clark, the family …


Issue burning like fire would - Westmount Examiner

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Issue burning like fire would
Westmount Examiner,  Canada
Last year, Pointe Claire became the first West Island municipality to regulate residential wood smoke with a bylaw amendment forcing all new residential fireplaces or wood stove ovens to meet environmental health and safety standards set by the US


Viewers Discuss Trying To Cut Their BGE Bills - WJZ

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

“We have electric heat and all thermostats are set at 50, most of our heat comes from our wood stove and pellet. Our bill still goes up each month and there’s really nothing more to cut out. It’s just two of us now and we both work so lights and TV …


Wood Stove Believed To Be Cause Of Cadillac House Fire - 9&10 News

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

A wood stove is believed to be the cause of a fire that nearly gutted a home in Cadillac. The house on Huston Street was mostly engulfed when crews arrived around 9:30 last night. It took them 15 minutes to knock down the fire, and then another hour …


SANTA ROSA: EMBER FROM WOOD STOVE SUSPECTED OF CAUSING LARKFIELD FIRE - CBS 5

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
SANTA ROSA: EMBER FROM WOOD STOVE SUSPECTED OF CAUSING LARKFIELD FIRE
CBS 5, CA
An ember from a wood stove that ignited a nearby pile of pressed logs is suspected of causing a fire that caused as much as $500000 damage to a two-story Larkfield home Monday afternoon. When he returned around 1 pm and opened the garage door he found


Crews halt blaze - Daily Post

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

SOMERVILLE TWP. -A timely return home and the “textbook” work of firefighters is being credited for preventing a full-blown house fire northeast of Coboconk Tuesday night. Returning from an evening out, a Baseline Road couple found their two-storey …


Lockwood family displaced by fire - Billings Gazette

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

A family of four escaped a fire Wednesday that started near the wood stove in its Lockwood mobile home. The Lockwood Fire Department was called to 3525 Tigard Ave. at about 6 a.m. and was able to extinguish the fire within 10 minutes. The occupants …