surely, they do "the combustion triangle" in schools? and when did the boy scouts stop camping?
"Boy" Scouts (they stopped being Boy Scouts years ago!) still go camping - as do Brownies and Guides, and campfires are a huge part of both organisations.
However, I know so many Guides (girls aged 10-14) who are scared of matches because they're not been taught how to use them safely, same with lighting and using candles.
I just had what would have been a small kitchen fire turn into a potentially much more dangerous situation because my first instinct to extinguish the fire on the piece of kitchen paper that I had accidentally set fire to was to blow on it.
I blew on it, and It then separated into multiple pieces of kitchen paper that were all separately on fire. I panicked, but managed to put all the individual fires out.
Once everything was safe, I asked myself why on earth I thought it was a good idea to blow on a piece of kitchen paper that was on fire, and then it dawned on me.
We are conditioned from our very first birthday, that fires can be put out by blowing on them.
I wasn't conditioned to blow on a fire to put it out, A candle or a Match yes, But never a fire.
If something on your house goes on fire, cover it with a damp cloth unless it is electrical. Didn't the fire brigade come to your school to teach you this OP?
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"Boy" Scouts (they stopped being Boy Scouts years ago!) still go camping - as do Brownies and Guides, and campfires are a huge part of both organisations.
However, I know so many Guides (girls aged 10-14) who are scared of matches because they're not been taught how to use them safely, same with lighting and using candles.
Never heard of that myself. What is the combustion triangle?
I wasn't conditioned to blow on a fire to put it out, A candle or a Match yes, But never a fire.