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Building fire, Sno Isle TECH Skills Center, Everett, WA (This video is intended to be a tribute to Sno-Isle and its students and staff. Feel free to leave appropriate text comments below the video. I won’t reply here, but may reply privately to some comments. I will also remove inappropriate comments. Thanks for understanding.) A small fire began a little before 3 pm, Tuesday, May 5, 2009 in Building 1 of Sno-Isle TECH Skills Center, and turned into a major fire that destroyed the whole building over the next several hours. Heavy wind and gusts hampered firefighting efforts all afternoon and evening. [ Added 5/23/09: It was reported at a staff meeting this past week that the investigation is complete, and that the fire was determined to be accidental. ] Sno-Isle is a couple blocks from the Boeing Company factory where the 747, 767, 777, and 787 planes are manufactured. They reportedly had to close all their doors during the fire to keep smoke from blowing into the assembly hangers. The Boeing building can be seen in a couple of the video shots. A huge piece of each current student, staff, and administrator from that building went up in smoke that Tuesday afternoon. A smaller piece of every current and past student, staff, and administrator involved with Sno-Isle was also lost. However, no one was hurt in the fire. (One firefighter did sustain minor injuries in a fall while staging equipment for the fire.) For our students, Sno-Isle is more than just a school. It is a …

PART 1 OF 2: A detailed fire making exercise in the Southeastern United States by Nutnfancy. Quite a different climate and foliage than the usual Nutnfancy Knife Clinic in the Rocky Mountains, this southern location provided an equally excellent location for wilderness craft. Tools used included the excellent, high value KaBar Heavy Bowie and Cold Steel Roach Belly knives, a Sawvivor backpacking saw, WD40, and a Light My Fire flint and steel. All came along and were used for demonstration purposes but not necessarily by necessity. The intent is to show viable backpacking fire tools that will get the job doneweight and compactness for carry purposes being important considerations. The secret time-saving weapon in this particular time-crunched clinic was one stick of fatwood, discussed in the video. Safety considerations, chopping, cutting, knife philosophy, and fire building techniques are necessarily discussed as the work progresses in this two-part series. If the response is good, I may do more wilderness skills videos but they might be few since they take a lot of work and are time-consuming.

A group of teens are practicing their wilderness primitive living skills. Video by Wahoo Films, wahoofilms.com and Bend Park and Rec, http Primitive Skills and Wilderness Survival took place at Coyote Trails School of Nature, www.coyotetrails.org , where a group of teens are practicing their wilderness primitive living skills. Including making fire, building debri huts and becoming stewards of the earth. The program is at Coyote Trails in Oregon.
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In this video and article I demonstrate a technique for building a fire structure that will burn continuously and does not require ANY managing. This is a great method to know if you need the heat from a fire while you are sleeping, but do not want to wake up repeatedly during the night to add more wood.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Building a fire with no matches, or even no wood, The Brigham Tea co, survival skills, camping, hiking, backpacking, hunting, outdoors, Bushcraft,Bowerman