Survival Fire and Water
Fire!
Fire provides… Heat Cooking Purification of water illumination Dry clothes Deterrent to predators Comfort
3 types of wood necessary TinderKindlingFuel Grass, leaves, bark, needles, etc. Twigs and branches Logs, coal, animal dung, braided tinder, long-burning material
3 points to the fire triangle Air HeatFuel
Types of fires
Teepee
Log Cabin
Lean-to
Starting a fire Modern versus traditional
Modern Match Lighter Gunpowder Battery Lens
Traditional Bow & Drill Fire plow Striking rocks Flint
Maintaining Fuel close Especially kindling
Water
Obtaining Know your surroundings Dew, Rain, Streams, Rivers, fresh puddles, snow, ice, trees, leaves, etc. **Will have to purify most sources**
Purifying Prevent dysentery, cholera, typhoid, flukes, leeches, and other bacterial infections *Boiling water 10 minutes will be sufficient at any altitude* **Create still**
Stills
Other means Water hole Tapping tree
What not to drink Alcohol Urine Blood Seawater
Cold weather injuries
Hypothermia
Frostbite
Trench foot