Firecraft is the art of making fire.
Those of us who are serious about basic survival skills know how important the ability to create fire is.
Fire is useful in all survival scenarios and can be a life-saver in many of them.
Fire gives us 3 critical survival elements:
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Hypothermia can occur at low temperatures, especially in soaked clothing. Heat from a fire can keep us from dying of hypothermia. Heat warms our bodies and heat dries wet clothes.
Heat is also essential to kill parasites and bacteria in raw meat.
Light from a fire can be used for signaling at night, as can the smoke from a fire during the day. The light from a fire illuminates the dark which helps keep wild animals at bay.
Smoke from a fire can also be used to smoke raw meats, an ancient method of food preservation. Smoke also can help protect you from of the biggest killer of them all, the mosquito.