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Fire Safety:Do you enjoy outdoor camping? If this is the question to the avid camper, the answer will be of course 'yes'. Do you enjoy outdoor camping without camp fire? The first answer will be no. Since the basic enjoyment of outdoor camping is with "building of campfire". The campfire offers a wonderful outdoor camping experience to the camper. The heart of camping is the campfire; what ever may be the purpose, it can be the need of warmth from the night coldness or the cooking requirements or the ambiance campfire. Here we have listed some of the campfire set up safety tips,
If you are camping in an authorized campsite, check for campfire pit. If your campsite has any campfire pit, then your effort of setting up a camp fire is half done. If your campground does not possess any campfire pit, you should set up a campfire pit for a safe campfire.
Constructing the fire pit is a crucial part, since the construction of fire pit has certain important steps. First, dig the soil to 3 meters and make sure you do not have any dried debris around the campfire. Properly arrange all the debris in the campfire pit, misplacement of the debris may start a blow out as the debris may fly out of the campfire pit area and fly on to the camping area. Place some rocks around the camping pit and make sure all your campfire ingredients are inside the rock arrangements.
The arrangement of the campfire should also be done in a Right way. The positionings of the campfire ingredients should be arranged in the campfire pit in proper way. First place the objects which are very light and can fly away. After this, place the wood, coal and all campfires starting stuff in the camping pit.
Campfire pit should not be nearer to the dried trees and your camping kitchen. If the campfire pit is near to the kitchen, there is a chance of a fire blow out and the fire may spread into the kitchen and make a big blow out. So, make sure the campfire pit is not near to the kitchen. If your campfire is near to hanging trees and if you are camping in summer, there is a chance that the fire spreads to the dried branches and leaves and starts a forest fire.
Always keep handy a water or sand bucket. This will helps you in blocking the campfire blow outs. Even after much care and safety measures, there is a chance of a campfire blow out. So, always keep handy the fire extinguishers. Avoid gas fire extinguishers since these can sometimes start a big wood blow out.
Always keep the campfire ingredients away from the campfire. The charcoal, wood, kerosene or any other campfire stuff should be kept away from the campfire set. At least have some distance between the ingredients and the campfire. Most of the people keep the fire upwind wood near to the campfire. This can be more hazardous since campfire ingredients can catch fire from a small campfire blowout.
Never leave the campfire unattended for a long time, since the unattended campfire is very hazardous. When you are leaving the campfire place, completely put off the flame and make sure the campfire is not at all left with any fire.
Children should never allowed near a campfire for any reason. Since most of the accidents are happened when kids and fire get too close to each other. Everyone in your group should know what to do if their own clothing catches fire. Stop, Drop, and Roll. This means stop in your tracks, drop to the ground, and roll your body on the ground to put out the flames.
