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Originally Posted by T4RAWR
btw, for those of you who DO plan on having a campfire a good tip is to bring a shovel and a bucket thats able to hold atleast 10L.
the shovel is handy for moving coals around, banking the fire as well as moving logs around without burning your fingers off or fiddling around looking for the "poking stick" that eventually ends up in the fire anyways.
i usually bring a cheap charcoal bbq and throw in hot coals from the fire to do the majority of my cooking/grilling.
the bucket of water is obvious.
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So I guess after camping last August I forgot to update this thread with the story of my trip to Seymour Arm which had shortly followed our fire discussion in this thread.
The Saturday morning (11ish in the A.M.) some of our crew who were starting breakfast hear some panicked yelling from what sounds like the next campsite over so one of my friends goes over to see what's going on. Well he runs back pretty quickly and yells that there is a fire next door. He grabs the shovel that I had sitting outside my tent and his fiance tries to wake me up to ask me whether I had a fire extinguisher. More on that later. At the other campsite the original lady who was calling for help is still freaking out basically spinning around in circles like a headless chicken. In the middle of an abandoned campsite there is a BBQ... And it's on fire... And the hose heading to the 10kg propane canister is on fire... We shovel a TON of sand and dirt onto the fire (it's a good thing it was also next to the beach because hard packed dirt at the end of the summer is full on awful to try to shovel). Several hours later we notice the campers from next door come back on their boat (a young family). After showing them the carnage and giving them a stern verbal shitkicking we discover that the husband had been under pressure from his bitch of a wife and wanted to at least have some food ready for them for when they got back in off the lake so he had left some smokies on the grill on the lowest heat setting before the went out on the lake. Obviously this guy went full retard but it's a good reminder that just because you are competent in the bush (and let's be honest none of us are ever as prepared as we think/hope we are) there are still plenty of potential Darwin award recipients out there that are waiting to try to take you down with them. I mean the community in Seymour Arm nearby there doesn't have a fire department... the ground was still tinder dry... and if the full propane tank had gone up in flames no amount of shoveling/small fire extinguishers were going to help at that point.
So the story about them asking me for the fire extinguisher: my friend Leanne pokes her head into my tent and asks me whether I had a fire extinguisher. I'm operating off of 3 hours of drunken sleep and she was doing an excellent job of not sounding panicky so I mumble some stuff like what and uhhh before I roll over and try to go back to sleep. I learn about all this an hour or so later when I hear commotion outside my tent where they're explaining what happened to some other late risers.
So the lessons to be learned here people, please be prepared. Always carry a shovel with you in your 4x4 (preferably a full size one, you'll thank me if you have to dig yourself out as well). Consider carrying a fire extinguisher in your vehicle (again, preferably a full size one - please read THIS THREAD for information on what to buy and why). It's not necessarily for you but even something like a small underhood fire while you're out bombing away on a forestry road can be absolutely disastrous for you and your surroundings. And thirdly, if somebody wakes you up to ask you about a fire extinguisher, you should probably rate that higher on the oh shit scale. A good practice I've always had at camp with people is having everyone's bear sprays sitting out around the camp in convenient places and making sure everyone knows were my first aid gear is but since then I've included the shovel/extinguisher/bucket as critical items that everyone should know the location of.
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Last edited by Brianrietta; 04-30-2014 at 09:09 PM.
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