Friday 5 August 2011

Campfire safety

How to choose your location

Follow these steps when picking site burning to promote wildfire safety:

* Build a fire in a place in the dangerous, dry conditions. Do not create a fire on the Camping area or event rules banning campfires.
* Find out about Camping has an existing fire ring or fire pit.
* If there isn't an existing fire pit and pits are allowed, look for a site that is at least fifteen feet away from the tent walls, bushes, trees or other flammable objects. See also low-hanging branches.

Note: in some areas, digging pits disallowed due to archaeological or other concerns. Read the rules in your area, you can.

Digging a hole

If creating a campfire pit himself, or prepare a pit that you discover to your campsite, there are some safety tips you should follow.

Build your campfire Pit from scratch

Some campsites have inappropriate pits or cannot offer pre-made pits at all. If this is the case:

1. Select a location that is protected from vattendimmgardin wind gusts and at least 15 metres from your tents and gear.


2. to clear a 10-foot diameter area around on the site. Remove all grasses, twigs, leaves and wood. Also, make sure that there are no tree limbs or flammable objects hanging overhead.
3. Dig a hole in the dirt, about a foot deep.
4. the Circle pit with stones.
5. Your Campfire pit is built and ready for processing!

Prepare your campfire Pit:

Before you start your campfire, you need to prepare your fire pit.

1. fill in the pit with small pieces of dry wood; never RIP or cut branches from live trees.
2. place your unused ved lov arts page and away from the fire.
3. Keep a bucket of water and shovel nearby.

How to build a campfire

Now that you have prepared your pit, it is time to build your campfire. How to have a safe and fun time.

1. collect three types of wood
* Tinder (small twigs, dry leaves or grass, dry needles)
* Kindling (sticks less than 1 ")
* Fuel (larger pieces of wood)
2. Loose Pile a few handfuls of tinder in the middle of the ring/fire pit


3. Add kindling in any of these methods:
* Tipi (good for cooking)
Determine the kindling of tinder as you build a tent.
* Cross (perfect for a lasting Campfire)
Crisscross the kindling of tinder.
* Lean-to (good for cooking)
Running a long piece of kindling in the ground at an angle across the tinder. The proportion of smaller pieces of kindling against the longer piece.
* Log Cabin (the longest lasting Campfire)
Enclose your pile of tinder with kindling, stacking pieces at right angles. Top "cabin" with the smallest Kindling.
4. Ignite tinder with a match or lighter
5. wait until the game is cold and throw it into the fire
6. add more tinder as the fire grows
7. easily at the base of the fire
8. Add kindling and firewood to keep the fire going
9. Keep fire small and under control

How to put out the campfire

Roaring fire is both a success and a responsibility. It is your job to properly maintain and extinguish your campfire so that future campers can do the same.

Keep your campfire

When you enjoy your campfire, remember these security tips:

1. When you have a strong fire going, add dry wood to keep it burning steadily larger pieces
2. Keep your brand to a manageable size
3. ensure that children and pets are monitored when near the fire
4. Never leave your campfire unattended
5. Never cut live trees or branches from living trees

Extinguish your campfire

When you are ready to get your fire and call it a night, follow these guidelines:

1. allow the wood to burn completely to ash, if possible
2. Pour lots of water on the fire, drown all embers, not just the Red
3. Pour until the hissing stops
4. Stir the campfire ashes and embers with a shovel
5. Scrape sticks and logs in order to remove all glow
6. stir and make sure that everything is wet and cold to the touch, they are
7. If you do not have water, use dirt. Mix enough dirt or sand with glow. Continue to add and stirring until all material is cool. Remember: don't bury the fire that the fire will continue to smolder and could capture the roots in the fire which will eventually come to the surface and start a forest fire.

Remember: If it is too hot to move, it is too hot to leave!

Do not burn dangerous things!

* never burn aerosols cans or pressurized containers. They may explode.
* never put glass in fire pit. Glass melt not deleted, it only heats and Sigmunds. Broken slivers of glass is dangerous.
* aluminum cans, burn or otherwise. In fact, is broken down to smaller aluminum only bits. Inhaling the aluminum dust can be harmful to your lungs.

Pack it, Pack out.

* be sure to pack out your trash. It is your responsibility to unpack everything you packed in.

Jay Bryce is a community manger at iFished.com. iFished.com has information about fishing and local for more than 40 000 lakes and fishing areas in the United States. The information includes current weather and forecasts, best times fishing charts, maps, local businesses, fishing shop and more. iFished.com also has a large library of fishing videos, fishing articles and current fishing reports to help you catch more fish.


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