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

[Glen Wilkerson]

Now you know why I am so attached to cyalume lightsitcks...

Alaric

-----Original Message-----
From: Arabella de Montacute <arabella at elfsea.net>
To: elfsea at ansteorra.org <elfsea at ansteorra.org>
Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:53 PM
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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