[Elfsea] FWD: Re: [Steppes] Preparing for Gulf War

[Richard Threlkeld]

At least some of the deaths were not open flames, but the
lack of them. Propane is heavier than air and collects.
Propane heaters without auto shutoff (most of the lower
cost heaters) can blow out or otherwise lose their flame
and continue to fill your tent with a heavy gas. If you are
sleeping low enough to get into the pool of propane, you
will suffocate.

It has happened more than once!

Caelin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: elfsea-admin at ansteorra.org [mailto:elfsea-admin at ansteorra.org]On
> Behalf Of Arabella de Montacute
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:51 PM
> To: elfsea at ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Elfsea] FWD: Re: [Steppes] Preparing for Gulf War
>
>
> >>> - No open flames in tents!  No lanterns or heaters
> >>> that give off fumes in tents either!!  (there have
> >>> been injuries and FATALITIES at SCA camping events
> >>> in the past due to these things!!)
>
> Well, the fatalities have been attibuted to two things: (1)
> improperly used heater in CLOSED, NON-BREATHING (nylon) tent, or
> (2) fire.  Just because a candle is stuck in a bucket of sand
> does NOT make it safe.
>
> NO open flames, or even closed flames (never mind fumes, flames
> eat up oxygen) should be used in a nylon tent.  If you have a
> canvas, period tent, use them with caution, and DO NOT FORGET the
> two key rules of using flames:
>
>    1)  NEVER leave a flame unattended.
>
>    2)  If you are asleep, the flame is unattended.
>
> If someone needs a night-light, get a battery-operated lamp.  You
> can buy ones that look like candles (I stocked up just after
> Christmas).  Do NOT cover the lamp - battery or otherwise - with
> a cloth to "make it look better" or to "add ambiance."  Fabric burns.
>
> Other common-sense fire rules:  Just because you cooked dinner
> over a charcoal grill doesn't mean you can ignore it and not take
> the time to be sure the coals are dead.  Just because the
> citronella candle comes in a cute metal bucket does NOT mean it
> is a "contained flame."  Oil lamps are flames.
>
> Canvas burns.  Nylon burns.  If you are afraid of the cold, get a
> hotel room, pack lots of blankets, bring a warm friend, get some
> of those chemical heating packs that camping-goods stores sell to
> put into boots and mittens, buy a "space blanket" to put between
> you and the ground or you and the rest of your bedding.  STAY DRY
> - wet will chill you very quickly.
>
>                        ---==organ (who has had put out camp
>                               fires and warm the hypothermic)
>
>
>
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