Ms. Klemperer then made a fire pit for her boyfriend, Michael Ballou, 69, a multimedia artist who lives in Williamsburg. Even though their neighborhoods aren’t zoned for fire pits, both of their backyards are so spacious, they said, that they meet all the requirements detailed in the new regulations.
“My yard is a 2,500-square lot, and I have a 500-square-foot concrete pad where I do the fire pit,” Ms. Klemperer said. “My place is very safe.”
Megan Weisenberger invites friends to her fire pit every few weeks. “I feel that people talk more around the fire,” she said. She also finds it a helpful tool for meeting neighbors, almost like a winter version of the stoop.
Her fire pit is basically a hole in the ground with bricks around it, so it is very contained, and she never leaves it unaccompanied, she said.
“With any open flame, you have to be there, you can’t walk away,” Captain Kozo emphasized. “And I mean not even for a moment.”
Many fire pit owners have gotten resourceful when it comes to supplies. Ms. Klemperer, the artist, has a pickup truck, which she drives around looking for wood. “I don’t know what National Grid was doing the other day, but they were digging up the street, and they left a lot of wood,” she said. “Once you start looking for wood, you really can find it everywhere.”
Others buy wood at their local bodegas, they said, and use old pizza delivery boxes as fire starters. As for Ms. Weisenberger: “This year I discovered you can Seamless firewood to yourself.”
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