Firefighter Survival Training

When stocking emergency supplies, it’s important to consider how these supplies are going to have to be stored. Discover why it’s important to use non-perishable food items in a survival kit with help from a street firefighter in this free video on emergency preparedness. Expert: Joe Bruni Contact: firestop.staylow@verizon.net Bio: Captain Joe Bruni has over three decades of experience as a street firefighter and company officer. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Video Rating: 4 / 5

This is my entry to the woods monkey, perfect survival kit, it had to be under ten minutes which only allowed 30 sec. for each item. for no more than 20 items. Which will explain why some of the explanations of items seemed to get cut short. All 20 items, the carry bag not included. 1. RAT 3 Knife 2.UST Sabersaw 3.Leatherman Surge multitool 4.Poncho 5.AMK emergency bivvy 6.Nalgene 7.1# coffee can 8.UST Blastmatch 9.Camenga Compass 10.Ranger Beads 11. Notebook 12.Pencil 13.whistle 14.Slingshot bands 15.Bandana 16.Bag Balm 17.Duct tape 18.Paracord 19. Sharpener 20.Headlamp
Video Rating: 4 / 5

having a go at building a four man shelter
Video Rating: 4 / 5

It’s just another data point for you guys but the short answer is no. But Nutnfancy’s is not really anti-axe. There are situations for which an axe is well-suited. But I am realistic about how it rarely fits well into SURVIVAL AND BACKPACKING systems. Some armchair critics and car campers, sometimes inexperienced in backpacking, will tout the axe as a much better wood chopping and splitting tool than the survival knives I review and show in use. True, an axe is a capable tool as I show in this video. When wielded with skill it can chop effectively and it pairs of limbs with ease. But you’ll need a long handled version like this – Gerber Splitting Axe, #GB-42763, to minimize your work. Even then the axe is bulkier, heavier (4 lbs!), potentially more dangerous than a large survival blade, lacks the finesse to produce fine kindling, and its an inefficient use of your limited energy in a survival situation. Also its pretty much guaranteed that you wont have a large handled axe like this with you when you get stranded and/or youre miles into the backcountry. I have backpacked many hundreds of miles into various terrains and I see few backpackers, miles into the backcountry, porting around an axe of any kind. Theyre just too heavy and bulky (of course the Hot Shots use their Pulaski axes with good effect for trail-building, brush clearance, and fire suppression techniques but thats wilderness fire fighting). However, as I proven myself many times, a medium to large knife …

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.

practising building basher shelter and lighting a resin fire
Video Rating: 4 / 5

practising building a basher and lighting a resin fire

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.
Video Rating: 4 / 5

this is me practicing shelter building and fire lighting
Video Rating: 4 / 5