a GREAT After Action report on prepping your home for forest fire fighting - lists of suggested gear - vendor suggestions - and lastly strategy on...
600+ homes lost, a Target shopping mall and a hotel..and still burning. High winds power lines touch, pole pig blows...disaster ensues. Very SoCal.
Any one seeing what's going on in the rest of the world? There are several very large forest fires burning right now around the world, each is...
I ran across this for something I was working on and was going to ask if anyone has used it. The monkey search shows all of these links. This is...
Yeah, this forum should be for stuff that has been tried. All the same, has anyone tried this out yet? Looks a good scheme, but without a...
NW Primate has a YouTube channel with a lot of really good Friction and Percussion fire techniques. In this one he uses a piece of metal window...
There is an easy way you can to make a filter for your home to help clean the air during wildfire season. Wildfire smoke is full of small...
A three-page file, offering instruction on making charcoal. A number of photos, although small and fairly poor resolution, are included in this...
A list of the 5 titles included in the .zip file: A_Wood-Gas_Stove_For_Developing_Countries.pdf Outdoor_Fireplaces.pdf Outside_Stoves.pdf...
Attempted to start a fire using the bow drill method, this was my first ever attempt using friction to start a fire!!!! Any of you start fires...
Introduction and Overview: Before I lace this Copyrighted material into my World of the Chernyi book set, I'm posting this series here to ask for...
A NY start-up tech company, Soteria Technologies, just launched an Indiegogo campaign for their brand-new product, Oxxy/Gen, the first affordable,...
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[ATTACH] A fire has broken out in a Alberta Canada. Depending on what news you read, 60- 80,000 people are under mandatory evacuation. The wind...
I was over at Outdoor Life and they had an article called the The 10 Commandments of Campfire Cooking It is a nice easy list but I figured the...
Making your own waterproof matches - Personal Liberty® . [IMG] Stick matches are easily compromised if old or even slightly wet. And while it’s...
So some of you might be subscribed already to my youtube channel. Others may not. I am doing a series of fire basics videos for this month. It is...
The family was in the house yesterday, windows open, just relaxing. There were the occasional sirens heading one way or another on the main...
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Hey guys! I just completed a new video on how to make a dakota pit fire. These are a really neat way to make a fire that is efficient and good to...
This is not mine. I saw somewhere else and thought someone might like to try it out. I guess we've all seen the Les Stroud videos where some of...
So you can track wildfires in your area. It takes a couple of minutes to load with slow connections and you can zoom in to see the area covered....
[IMG] Nearly 5 million Kidde fire extinguishers sold over the past two years are being recalled because a defective valve could cause them to...
[ATTACH] Numyth Fire Piston by Going Gear™ This is a fantastic, bulletproof fire piston and I don't ever see myself breaking this tool. It will...
Ok, it's been probably a year plus since I got the flint and steel kits from Bear and hadn't done anything with them. While I was packing my very...
[IMG] The latest: The Carlton Complex Fire is 237,890 acres. It is 2 percent contained. 3,500+ personnel are fighting it. About 200 homes have...
I bet, like me, you thought: Ganja fire-starta... ;) Well, NO! Sorry to disappoint you. [IMG] Via: How to Make Herbal Fire Starters...
Today, I tried wet fire for the first (and possibly last) time. Don't get me wrong, as an emergency fire starter, it would be fine. I prefer...
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