[MR] Campfire Safety

[Marybeth Lavrakas]

Many of you may have missed the news story about a deadly house fire up in Connecticut right around Christmas that turned out to have been caused by someone cleaning out the ashes from the fire place, and then leaving them (in a bag, I think) inside the house. One article I read quoted a fire official saying they see similar fires started by people emptying ashes into plastic buckets, then leaving the bucket in the garage. Glad to have this guide to help me be safe in taking care of fires at events!!

Kateryn Rous



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 From: Bambi TBNL <hippy_dippy_dancer at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, January 2, 2012 7:00 PM
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Gise honey:
good job!!! One can never be over informed. 
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Date: Monday, January 02, 2012 4:10:11 pm
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From: "Gise" <scribe0002 at aol.com>
Subject: [MR] Campfire Safety

Good afternoon, folks,

I hope everyone had a marvelous holiday and that we all enter happy and healthy.

As we take a break during the winter months from camping I thought I'd post this link about campfire safety.

At several events in the last year there have been potentially dangerous situations regarding campfire construction, maintenance and discard of coals. These situations (the ones of which I am aware) did not become harmful only because other people intervened. 

In our hobby we are around fire quite a lot. It is something we must know about and respect as well as enjoy.

http://www.smokeybear.com/campfire-safety.asp

~gise
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