Letter to Editor-Los Angeles-Ban Wood Burning Fireplaces

Los Angeles Times

OPINION-Letter to the Editor

June 5, 2007

I wholeheartedly agree with doing away with wood-burning fireplaces. On my lunch hour last week, I strolled to the Ralph's grocery store across the street and there, at the front door, was a colossal stack of firewood (next to a pyramid of charcoal briquettes) to be purchased for burning. With L.A. assuming its place, once again, as the American city with the worst air quality, banning wood-burning and charcoal-burning grills and fireplaces is appropriate. They are dirty and sooty and nothing more than habit or what we have become accustomed to. In all honesty, who needs them?

ELLEN HAGEMAN

Los Angeles