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Camp Fire Safety

Every year, people in Canada suffer serious injury or death due to getting burned while camping. According to a study of burn patients admitted to the University of Alberta, Firefighter's Burn

Treatment Centre, in Northern Alberta alone, 74 per cent of all camping injuries to children

were due to burns. These numbers are even higher in adults. The number of forest fires in British Columbia that occur is usually about 2,000, with half caused

by people and half caused by lightning.

Most forest fires are started by humans. Natural causes account for my acreage of forest firedamage.

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Major causes of Burns 34% of burns were Children walking or falling on open flames 30% of burns were caused by combustibles being poured on open flames 50% of burn patients were under four years old 81% of adults burned were intoxicated (USA) Even eight hours after a campfire has been buried in sand, one second of contact with the area

can cause first-degree burns. 70% camping burns occur this way.


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Campfire prevention

Clear the area around your campfire of all debris for at least one metre.

Never use gasoline to start a campfire. An explosion will result. Build your campfire downwind, away from your tent, clearing away all dry vegetation and

digging a pit surrounded by rocks.

Look for signs that warn of potential fire hazards in provincial and national forests andcampgrounds, and always obey park service regulations.

Never leave your campfire unattended. NEVER leave children unattended or playing near a campfire. Stop adding wood to the fire well before leaving the site, let the fire burn down, spread the

remains evenly in the fire pit, and slowly add water and stir. Test the campfire for heat beforeleaving the site.

Set up tents at a safe distance and upwind from the campfire. Keep all combustible materials, including flammable liquids, propane cylinders, lighting fluid, etc.

away from the campfire.


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Forest fire case

Colorado, 2002 . Terry Lynn Barton, a U.S. Forest Service worker in Colorado, tried to burn a handful of letters from her estranged husband, but ran into a few problems. First, she set fire to love lost inan area where campfires had been outlawed due to drought -- something a U.S. Forest Service

worker, someone who enforces the no-fire ban, ought to know. This lead to the largest wildfirein Colorado state history -- now known as the "Hayman Fires" -- burning through 210 squaremiles of Pike National Forest , killing five firefighters, and causing nearly $40-million in damages.She was later indicted on charges of "wilfully and maliciously destroying U.S. property andcausing personal injury by setting a blaze that has grown into a wildfire of historic proportions,"and authorities believe the love letter story covered up other reasons for deliberately startingthe blaze. She eventually pleaded guilty to arson, and is now serving 12 years in jail.
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