[Sca-cooks] open fire safety
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sun Aug 17 21:32:57 PDT 2008
Brangwayna Morgan commented:
<<<
<<While I'm sure
people burn themselves and even catch fire over their stoves today,
sometimes even burning the house down, but I don't think we see quite
as many coroner's reports stating that the cause of death was "falling
into the fire" as we used to in the 18th and 19th centuries, and
previously.>>
Considering how few people have functional fireplaces in their homes
today,
and how comparatively rarely those are used compared with historic
times, it
should hardly be surprising that we see far fewer reports of "death
by falling
in the fire". The opportunity to do so simply doesn't exist as
frequently
as it used to. >>>
Yes. This is one of the reasons I strongly recommend to newcomers
that they make their outdoor event garb out of natural fabrics.
Unfortunately, some people seem to leave their common sense at home
when they leave for Pennsic, Gulf Wars etc.
While these reports are old, as I've never seen any that were newer,
they are still a good warning that problems are still allowed to
develop. These are in the PENNSIC section of the Florilegium:
P19-fire-rpt.art (12K) 9/ 1/90 Baron Durr's fire report for
Pennsic XIX.
P23-fire-rpt (27K) 9/30/94 Baron Durr's fire report for
Pennsic XXIII.
P24-fire-rpt (27K) 11/ 9/95 Baron Durr's fire report for
Pennsic XXIV.
However, this is the article that I encourage everyone to read.
Besides the pictures in it were drawn by William Blackfox and his
work is not so easy to find anymore. Please encourage folks to read
these, or similar, articles. It could save someone's life.
Fire-Book-art (739K) 12/28/00 Baron Durr's Guide to Safe Fire Use.
Fire-Book-no-pics (23K) 1/12/96 Baron Durr's Guide to Safe Fire
Use. (with
pictures removed for easy file
transfer.)
<<< Having had to guard an inebriated guest in our camp from falling
into our
firepit at Pennsic this year, I was quite afraid that we might end up
with a
perfectly period incident of the sort... >>>
Only one inebriated guest?
Stefan
(9 years of camping with the Boy Scouts made me aware of fire safety
and fire dangers long before I joined the SCA. But the Boy Scouts
didn't say much about cooking in long tunics and I don't remember
using open torches there)
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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