Faux fires are a gas for local company - Sponsored Whitepaper

By JOE NABBEFELD Journal Real Estate Editor

Kurt Rumens the rock star didn't happen. But a wood stove company kept borrowing his band's truck, and at times the band, to deliver stoves -- and out of that came Kurt Rumens the stove and fireplace salesman.

Rumens' first company, Lopi Stove Co., takes credit for designing the first "non- catalytic" wood stove, a device that re-burned The Ember Fyre gas log fireplace resembles a the wood smoke wood fire. a second time for cleaner emissions without using existing catalytic technology.

Now the successor company to Lopi, Kirkland-based Travis Industries, has come out with what it claims is the best-yet mock wood fireplace fired by natural gas.

The new, patent-pending hearth, as Travis refers to it, is called Ember Fyre.