Fire-Lighting 101

Fire-Lighting 101-By: Kevin Callan

Rating: ***

This article is about learning how to make a proper fire, and what the best material to use to make it with. The harder the weather becomes the more difficult starting a fire is.

In this article is explains how to start a fire from the types of tinder you need to the best way to get the flame going. In this article it tells you that using a butane lighter rather than matches because if the matches get wet you cant use them again and your stuck without a fire starter. It also tells you which wood is best to use to keep the flame going, which  is dead, dried maple, oak or ironwood.

This article has really shown me the importance of fire in the wild. I know now that the best way to light a fire the article gives you a step by step instruction to due so; 1.Go to the back of the campsite and collect and handful of dry, pencil-sized twigs. 2.Locate dry, standing wood no bigger in size than the thickness of your arm. 3.Get Birch for your tinder or dried lichen, dry pine needles or cattail fluff works well as well. This article made me think about how lazy humans are, any one can make a fire but almost every person does not know how to make one themselves. If you put a group of people together and ask them to make a fire only one will succeed at making one. This has inspired me to go out and learn to make a fire without someones help and if  at first I dont succeed than I will try again until I get it right.

Citation

Callan, Kevin . "Fire-Lighting 101." Explore 18 Nov. 2013: 34-35. Print.