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Understanding Fire: Behavior and Safety

There are three necessary components for a fire: fuel, oxygen, and an ignition source or heat. Smoke is not required for fire, but indicates that combustion is occurring. To create fire using natural materials requires a magnifying glass, mirror, or polished soda can to concentrate sunlight and ignite tinder or char cloth. The behavior of fire is influenced by fuels, weather, and topography, and fire will continue as long as it has heat, oxygen, and fuel. The color of flames and smoke provide information about the temperature and completeness of combustion.

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Understanding Fire: Behavior and Safety

There are three necessary components for a fire: fuel, oxygen, and an ignition source or heat. Smoke is not required for fire, but indicates that combustion is occurring. To create fire using natural materials requires a magnifying glass, mirror, or polished soda can to concentrate sunlight and ignite tinder or char cloth. The behavior of fire is influenced by fuels, weather, and topography, and fire will continue as long as it has heat, oxygen, and fuel. The color of flames and smoke provide information about the temperature and completeness of combustion.

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Where there is smoke, there is fire....

 Is smoke an essential element of fire? Are there other indication on the


presence of fire aside from smoke.
No. There must be Fuel to burn.

There must be Air to supply oxygen.

There must be Heat (ignition temperature) to start and continue the combustion process.

 If you are made to create fire, what materials will you need and what is its
purpose?
- Magnifying Glass or Mirror
- The key to any of these methods is concentrating the sunlight into a
beam that is hot enough to start a fire. A piece of glass, the bottom of a
soda can that has been polished to a shine with toothpaste or clay, or a
mirror can be used to concentrate the sunlight into a white-hot beam.
Direct the glass, soda can or mirror into the sun. Place your tinder or
char cloth into the brightest part of the beam and wait for it to ignite.

 Is there an observable or predictable behavior of fire? Does the color of the


flame and smoke have a meaning or an explanation?
 fire behavior is not always predictable. We can predict—probably—where the
fire is going to go and what it will do—probably—when it gets there, but these
predictions are without certainty.
 In wildland fires, this behaviour is influenced by how fuels (such as needles,
leaves and twigs), weather and topography interact. Once a fire starts, it will
continue burning only if heat, oxygen and more fuel are present.
 Orange and Yellow Flames Indicate Unburned Carbon
A Blue Flame Indicates Complete Burning of Carbon
Orange Flames Indicate Temperatures of 1,100 to 2,200 Degrees
Blue Flames Indicate Temperatures of 2,300 to 3,000 Degrees

Fire is a chemical reaction that gives off light and heat. It is an example of the chemical process.


Fire is useful, but also very dangerous because it can cause houses, trees and many other things to
burn into ashes. Forest fires are very harmful. They can destroy a huge area in a matter of
minutes. Every year people die by accident from fire. Fire can be very useful if it is treated
carefully. It has always been very important for people to be able to make fire. People need its
heat to keep warm on cold days. It is also used to cook meats. Its light can be useful to be able to
see in dark places.

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