You spend time outdoors at night? Fishing, hunting, hiking, camping, all things ...
By late summer, the nights are cooler and you want to get warm by the fire. Sometimes it can be more harmful than you think.
Do not breathe in smoke
Smoke - a lot of small solid particles. They fly deep into the lungs and remain there. For a healthy person is enough then to cough a few times, but the people who have chronic lung disease, it is much harder to cope with the pollution.
Heat worse than smoke
As strange as it may seem, but the harm from inhalation of hot air usually higher than from the smoke. Small particles of soot are released slowly with a cough, but a small burn of the respiratory tract will heal as much as is necessary to heal burns. That is not to take place in one day.
If you feel that fire fry your face and hands, it is a sure sign that you can not breathe in this air. Slide back.
important rules
Burn in the fire of untreated wood only. No need to burn railway sleepers or someone fences. Construction timber is usually treated with chemicals against rotting and fire. Such muck easily be poisoned.
No special breathing smoke from industrial wood. These logs are burning well and long, they are less smoke. It is true that the smoke does not healthier than usual. There's even more important than trying to cook something on such wood or charcoal. If they are not written, they are for barbecue, it is best to not try to fry them. From there on the barbecue can spritz toxic chemicals.
Choose calm weather. The hurricane fire is better not to burn. He will work as a flamethrower. Not only that, you can set fire to something, so your face does not fly soot particles, and sheaves of burning sparks. Nothing burn at wind speeds above 10 m / s.
Keep an eye on children. They climb everywhere and do not understand anything. Children are more vulnerable to smoke, chemicals and high temperature. Teach your children to keep a safe distance from the fire and not messing with embers.
Choose a log logs and thinner. Do not recommend burning logs thickness more than 15 cm. They will burn unevenly, and while the outer part is lit from the middle to splash juice, resin and tar. breathing is not useful those things.
Do not use chemical kindling. Firstly, this is not a sports (I myself carried with a flint in the car). Secondly, this kindling not only burns, but also powerful evaporates. You inhale it, and this chemical. Special kindling goes well only with wood coals in the brazier. It permeates the coal and burns quietly. If you take other flammable liquid, pour on non-absorbent wood with bark, and even if it's a bunch of loose twigs, then after a while the whole volume of the liquid vapor impregnated firewood kindling. Upon ignition of such a thing turns volumetric explosion. So Babakhan straw effigy of winter, when it is impregnated with gasoline.
Keep a water. Or a fire will spread in the wrong direction, or you sparks fly. It is better to be able to quickly extinguish all.
No one says you have to give up the fire. In any case, most of us are not so often that a tourniquet. You just need to understand how the open fire can hurt you. Have fun! Summer leaves.
