My friends mocked my Fire Bucket

[Slubberdegullion]

"and where is the muster station?" they said

And "do you have a fire whistle? What will be the signal?"

Nothing funny about a fire bucket imo. Very serious and sensible it is.

Yes, that's a very good point about the time taken. I don't really think about it now - it's just part of our normal setting up camping routine. Take the aquaroll over to fill, then take the fire bucket.

yes I agree, it is sort of automatic (which is why I wonder if i have had some sort of borg like assimilation by the Girl Guides).

do you have sand in your fire bucket?

i have a fire extinguisher - you have to carry one to drive in bit of europe

Tell them from me that if they had ever seen a tent fire they would stop mocking.

I don't BC. Just standard water, is sand more effective? Probably.

The bucket, while we are on the road, holds the gas bottle, so no room for sand...unless we took a bag of sad

Just water here too. We also have a fire blanket in the caravan (and a smoke alarm - but that's mostly useless - it always goes off whenever you grill anything )

water is fine, i was just thinking i might snigger at sand. i alway associate firebuckets with dirty sand sprinkled with fag butts

yy me too.

Unsanitary.

And thinking about it, I don't think I could heft a nappy bucket full of sand. I could tip it over onto my feet if they were on fire, but lobbing it in a heroic fireperson fashion. Forget it.

No I'll stick with water
you can also put your bottle of white wine in it for a makeshift wine cooler

That thread is very odd - we were taught at the glasto stewards meeting that new tents dont go up in flames they just melt in a puddle. They never ever have tent fires there even though people worry about it all the time.

Saying that I think a fire bucket is a fine thing.

They kind of melty burn omnishambles, with droplets of molten plastic dropping down on all the flammable stuff inside, which then goes up a treat.

Maybe its because so few people actually cook at festivals that its not a problem there. Weird though.

I had a similar hilarious joke making session on our recent camping trip, about my fire bucket, my fire blanket (spare from cm'ing) and my first aid box. The buggers

Omnipresent, it is odd as even if they are not cooking then presumably they are [catsbumface] smoking.

Tent fires are pretty rare thank God but every year there are always a few horror stories on ukcs.

Jaffa, I would recommend withholding first aid supplies (not the fire bucket though) until they have apologised

My last ever night shift in A&E I had to x-ray a pair of dreadlocked men who had been trying to take heroin inside a tent. Off your head trying to cook up drugs is NOT a sensible tent activity. I don't think I will EVER get the smell out of my nose, lightly cooked hippy, burnt hair with blobs of molten plastic, yum!

Thank you for these threads, we are camping through Europe this summer and I hadn't thought for a minute about fire safety, I will go and purchase a fire bucket immediately.

ooh omnipresent? That is sooo going to be this years Christmas name - thanks!

Hahahahahaha bloody autocorrect.

Lostinwales, mm, yum smell indeed. I'm holding out for this link to a collapsible fire bucket (maybe I should google collapsible bucket). that would both be safety!safety! and packing-lite.

omni you need to see teh alan video!

What about something like this, Slubber: www.amazon.co.uk/Yellowstone-Foldable-Bucket-Blue-Litre/dp/B0037CF6H0/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307459083&sr=8-1-fkmr1

Sorry slubber... only just come back. I bought mine from The Range I think it was about a fiver, it's not specifically[sp] a fire bucket but thats what I bought it for. it is similar the the one someone linked to on amazon.

Thats awful lostinwales, were they OK? Not that I am condoning drug taking I just felt sorry for them being inside a burning tent.

They were ok as far as I could tell Ineed, slightly singed but no lasting damage, completely off their heads so obviously the first fix had been trouble free! (but the SMELL, I was pg with DS2 and tying to keep it quiet, how I didn't vomit on them I don't know.)

I am a novice camper (and Guider) and had already thought that our 'fridge' (bucket of water in which the milk is immersed) might have to double as a fire bucket. I have just bought Amazon's collapsible bucket.

Amazon bucket looks good. Ta RubberDuck and Ineedanewlife for reporting back.

I should add the disclaimer that I don't have a collapsible bucket - just a bog standard red plastic bucket with the word FIRE written in big friendly yellow letters

But that is the ultimate in Fire Bucketry Rubber Duck.

One day when I get a trailer that is what I shall have.