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A campfire made using twigs and pine cones. A campfire is a fire at a campsite that provides light and warmth, and heat for cooking. It can also serve as a beacon, and an insect and predator deterrent. Established campgrounds often provide a stone or steel fire ring for safety. Campfires are a popular feature of camping. At summer camps, the ...
The 2018 Camp Fire in Northern California's Butte County was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's history. The fire began on the morning of Thursday, November 8, 2018, when part of a poorly maintained Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) transmission line in the Feather River Canyon failed during strong katabatic winds.
Camp Fire, formerly Camp Fire USA and originally Camp Fire Girls of America, is a co-ed youth development organization. [1] [2] Camp Fire was the first nonsectarian, multicultural organization for girls in America. [3]
The 2018 wildfire season was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire season in California history.It was also the largest on record at the time, now third after the 2020 and 2021 California wildfire seasons.
Campfire (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse; Campfire (software), an online chat service by Basecamp; Campfire (app), a companion app to connect with players of Niantic games; Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE), in Zimbabwe; Campfire, a platform around which internet tribes gather
The control of fire by early humans was a critical technology enabling the evolution of humans. Fire provided a source of warmth and lighting, protection from predators (especially at night), a way to create more advanced hunting tools, and a method for cooking food.
The Camp-Fire Club of America was organized in 1897 [1] to bring together hunters, anglers, explorers, naturalists, artists and individuals who subscribe to the principles of adventure and fellowship in the great outdoors, and to further the interests of sports afield and wildlife conservation.
Campfire in the Redwoods by Edwin Deakin (1876), Laguna Art Museum. In North America, a campfire story is a form of oral storytelling performed around an open fire at night, typically in the wilderness, largely connected with the telling of stories having supernatural motifs or elements of urban legend. Whereas the activity is not incomparable ...