21 Aug Fire features add dramatic effects to custom inground swimming pools

How high-end pool builders use fire to add drama and excitement to poolscapes

Playing with Fire

PROFILE BY KEVIN DOUD on Luxurypools.com

Years ago, while I was working as a sales manager for an industrial combustion company, I received a phone call from a contractor working on the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. His specialty was water, and he was looking for a mechanical engineer to assemble all of the technical equipment for the fire features on the project, which included two 7-foot-diameter cast-stone water and fire urns at the entrance of the temple. I always had an interest in landscape architecture and construction, and so I agreed to help them out.