Equipment failure

[korolev]

I knocked on a womans door once at work and she opened it with a bright red face. Not sunburn red, brighter. I said "are you alright ?" and she said she'd been filling her lighter when it had 'blown back' and ignited in the lit fag in her mouth, singeing her face, eyebrows, hair etc.
She got all indignant when I started laughing...

[Jarhead55]

Sad to say but obviously not a prepper. Or much of a camper.
I had soldiers crawling round harbour area stopping at each basha for doing such dumb things.
Hexamine, Peak, gas, petrol, Trangia, meths.There is no cooker safe enough to use in a tent inmho.
Just aint worth the risk.
I guess Id need a tepee with central fireplace tended 24/7 to feel remotely safe.
Hobo stove with chimney in a shed or bigger would be okay I guess.
On det in 9x9 or derelict buildings used a two ring, propane gas cooker for many years, but regularly inspected it and always had an extinguisher handy.

Funny story :
1st Gulf, M109 Arty Regt. 2 Gunners cooking in back of Gun, post firing.
Powder from bag charges leaked around back of veh.
Sparks, BIGGER sparks, conflagration.
Fear, followed by panic, followed by running, followed by massive explosion visible over the horizon.
Luckily Iraqis left spare M109's around when retreating.

[ukpreppergrrl]

"had to lie under to tap of the water " would be the typo I guess

Either that or someone's been waterboarded!

[Deeps]

"had to lie under to tap of the water " would be the typo I guess

Either that or someone's been waterboarded!

Think that would be preferable to having to go home with the delectable (at least by that phot) 'Vicky'.

[jansman]

Sad to say but obviously not a prepper. Or much of a camper.
I had soldiers crawling round harbour area stopping at each basha for doing such dumb things.
Hexamine, Peak, gas, petrol, Trangia, meths.There is no cooker safe enough to use in a tent inmho.
Just aint worth the risk.
I guess Id need a tepee with central fireplace tended 24/7 to feel remotely safe.
Hobo stove with chimney in a shed or bigger would be okay I guess.
On det in 9x9 or derelict buildings used a two ring, propane gas cooker for many years, but regularly inspected it and always had an extinguisher handy.

Funny story :
1st Gulf, M109 Arty Regt. 2 Gunners cooking in back of Gun, post firing.
Powder from bag charges leaked around back of veh.
Sparks, BIGGER sparks, conflagration.
Fear, followed by panic, followed by running, followed by massive explosion visible over the horizon.
Luckily Iraqis left spare M109's around when retreating.

We appreciate your input and tales.If you would be kind enough not to use military abbreviations, and actually make sense ,then that would be GR8 ( sorry,could not resist that!) Thankyou.

[Jarhead55]

Oops, sorry, old fart new tricks and all that.
M109 is a tracked artillery piece with a Confined space not designed for cooking in.Especially if there are remains of unburnt explosives around.
The Army had a petrol presure stove called a No.2 which was notoriously dangerous. The two idiots defied Standard Operating Procedures as well as Darwin.

[jansman]

Much appreciated. Not everyone understands military parlance.Most Preppers are not ex- military.

[Yorkshire Andy]

I love my Coleman petrol appliances as I'm tight and they are cheap to run



Family camping I go on electric pitch with an induction hob for cooking

[sniper 55]

Took a guy to hospital many years ago very badly burnt, long story short, he'd been changing a campingaz bottle (the ones you pierce) and it wasn't empty, this inside a lorry cab with a lit cigarette. I saw all the windows blow out the lorry, followed shortly by a bloke on fire. By the time I got to him he'd more of less put the flames on himself out.
The lorry cab was a right off, all windows gone and burnt out inside. Bloke was on his first day in the job.... probably his last day too, bet the firm were well impressed.

[Jarhead55]

Crazy.
Campingaz cookers are pretty useless in sub zero anyway, gas contracts qnd pressure is really weak. Bulky to carry, a sprog mistake when I joined the Army.
Death injury by fire a major training concern with accidents regularly happening.
One of my first house prepping events I guess. Whole house rewired by a professional.
Even had a fire practise with wife and kid, they werent happy at 1 am, but saw the logic later.

A fireman friend told me that they find a lot of victims have attempted to claw their way out of walls because they are so disorentated they cant find their way out the bedroom and cant break double glazing.