In the forest, it is necessary to follow the rules of making a fire and fire safety measures. Even a small spark can cause a destructive fire, which will destroy not only kilometers of green spaces, but also deprive many animals of their usual habitats, and even bring them death.
How to make a fire?
Campfire rules begin with the process of lighting a fire. In cloudy or rainy weather, only the lower branches of trees are taken for this. But only dead and dry. Birch bark is well suited for kindling. But you can’t peel it from living trees. Birch bark is enough on the ground. To kindle a bonfire, chips of dry logs, stumps, resinous bark, etc. are used. Before going to the forest, you can take candles, dry alcohol, or scraps of plexiglass.
Many stores sell special bonfire liquid. Matches before going to the forest are packed in waterproof packaging. For quick bonfire, you can lower the paper-wrapped boxes in paraffin or melted wax.
How to make a bonfire in the forest?
There are safety rules when making a fire. This should be done only by adults. Bonfires cannot be burned in strong winds, near conifers, on dry grass and peat bogs. To start a fire, you must first prepare a place. To do this, a small layer of soil is removed with a shovel, in which there are roots and insects.
For a bonfire, you cannot break the branches of living trees. Only dry branches lying on the ground are used. Before leaving, the fire is abundantly filled with water until the coals cool completely. Then it is covered with a layer of earth that was originally removed.
How to maintain fire fire?
The rules for making a bonfire begin with collecting deadwood for him. You cannot break and chop living trees. Only dry branches are collected, of which there are many on the earth. For a bonfire, you can use lightning-split trees. And in the living, dry branches break off. Sometimes the trees are broken by a strong wind, which can also be used for a fire, like rotten stumps. Dead wood of dead coniferous and deciduous trees is also collected. Except standing in swamps or lying on damp ground.
Raw logs are used when the bonfire is already completely lit. In this case, the tree will burn for a long time. In the tundra, a shrub is used for bonfire. From the banks of the rivers going fin. These are trees brought by floods, lying on the ground and already dried out under the sun. In semi-desert and mountainous areas, dried animal manure is used for bonfire.
Bonfire Safety
There are certain rules for making a bonfire in the forest and tracking the fire. This is an elementary safety technique that protects not only humans, but also the fauna and flora. Burning bonfires should not be left unattended at night. Because the flame in a sudden rising wind can spread to neighboring vegetation. You need to extinguish a fire as soon as you start to sleep. Otherwise, a person who has fallen asleep may fall into the fire and get serious burns and injuries. And sparks from a fire are able to set fire to not only clothes and tents, but also neighboring vegetation.
Bonfires should be raised 10 meters from the tent. In the direction of the wind. To it, the tent is set only by the back wall, and to the fire - the entrance. In the mountains, you need to consider that in the morning the wind blows from the valley, and in the evening - from the mountains. Therefore, the bonfire should be located closer to the river.
Campfire rules prescribe a ban on the use of fir or spruce branches for a fire in order to avoid a large number of large sparks. In addition, charcoals are "fired" by fire over long distances. Birch bark is used only for making bonfires. Pine and cedar create even burning. Without sparks, but with soot. It is not when using alder wood. And they burn evenly, without smoke. Birch firewood sparks strongly, but gives a lot of heat.
If, however, a fire is lit in a coniferous forest, then you can’t make a big fire. Sparks rising up can lead to a strong horse fire, which is considered the most dangerous. Therefore, a bonfire in coniferous places is bred at least 15 meters from the trees.
What is prohibited during a fire hazard?
Campfire rules in a fire hazard period have many prohibitions. It is impossible (even in case of great need) to kindle fire in forests in periods of increased fire hazard. This situation may occur from May to September. It is strictly forbidden by the rules to make bonfires:
- in coniferous and pine young growth;
- on windfalls;
- in windbreak;
- on cutting areas where timber is harvested or there are logging residues;
- in fields with ears of crops;
- in the steppes with dried grass;
- in clearings with dry grass;
- next to reeds, moss and reeds;
- on or near peatlands;
- under the crowns of trees;
- on the old burners.
Bonfires should be located only in open places, at a decent distance from vegetation and shrubs. And first of all - away from dry grass. During the fire hazard period it is forbidden to use barbecues in the forest or any cooking appliances.
You can not smoke and throw cigarette butts and burning matches, shake the ash from the pipes. It is forbidden to use pyrotechnics and shoot from firearms. Material impregnated and oiled with flammable substances should not be left in forests. It is forbidden to refuel tanks and leave glass bottles, their fragments and other garbage in an open space.