17 steps to building a camp fire
The evenings are starting to get cool up here in Edmonton. It’s getting to be a good time to sit around a fire pit with friends and family. There’s a fine art to building a fire. Like any other project, if you have your next actions organized, you’ll have a flame in no time.
Here are the steps to building a fire:
1. Split dead limb into fragments and shave one fragment into slivers.
2. Bandage left thumb.
3. Chop other fragments into smaller fragments
4. Bandage left foot.
5. Make structure of slivers (include those embedded in hand)
6. Light Match
7. Light Match
8. Repeat “a Scout is cheerful” and light match.
9. Apply match to slivers, add wood fragments, and blow gently into base of fire.
10. Apply burn ointment to nose.
11. Once fire is burning, collect more wood.
12. Upon discovering that fire has gone out while out searching for more wood, soak wood from can labelled “kerosene.”
13. Light match
14. Treat face and arms for second-degree burns.
15. Re-label can to read “gasoline.”
16. When fire is burning well, add all remaining firewood.
17. When the rain has passed, repeat steps.
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