{"id":5513,"date":"2014-03-22T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/blog\/are-outdoor-fire-pits-legal-in-toronto-part-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:52:03","slug":"are-outdoor-fire-pits-legal-in-toronto-part-2","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/eu\/blog\/are-outdoor-fire-pits-legal-in-toronto-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Outdoor Fire Pits Legal in Toronto? Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a question that is often asked of us and often misunderstood \u2013 for good reason. Until recently, trying to get a definitive answer to this question has been difficult, and online research usually uncovers, at best, vague language and, at worst, nothing. Not so anymore. The city of Toronto has finally published clear guidelines on what is allowed and what is not under the city\u2019s fire code. It is a clarification of what I had <a href=\"https:\/\/paloform.com\/eu\/blog\/are-outdoor-fire-pits-legal-in-toronto\/\">written<\/a> a couple of years ago and can be summed up like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/paloform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MNP-EI-191STIB-062-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paloform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MNP-EI-191STIB-062-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/paloform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MNP-EI-191STIB-062-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/paloform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MNP-EI-191STIB-062-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/paloform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MNP-EI-191STIB-062-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/paloform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MNP-EI-191STIB-062-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Open-air burning is not permitted \u2013 by \u201cburning,\u201d they mean with solid fuel: wood, coal, books, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. \u2026unless with the written approval of the Toronto Fire Services Fire Prevention Division<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. \u2026or when used for smoking meat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Natural gas or propane fire pits, when certified to CSA standards, are permitted when installed and operated in accordance with the manufacturer\u2019s instructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there you have it: Toronto\u2019s rules are laid out clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9775,"template":"","categories":[51],"class_list":["post-5513","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-pits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/5513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paloform.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}