How to keep the camp fire cook area safe.

Note the dug out area
for the ash under the fire.

To safety use a Campfire for cooking remember these things.

• Most important this - Check the fire danger rating.  Do not take risks with this as the results could kill those you love.
• Wind over 12 knots is too dangerous for a person on a roof.  Why then would someone light a fire when the hot ashes could spread and ignite anything within landing range.
• If needed make a wood pile well away from where the blaze of the firs will be.
• Only use enough firewood for what you are going to be needing to be cooking with.
• Fire wood should not be treated.  Treated wood gives off toxins while burning.
• Once you have what you want [usually ashes to place the cooking pot within] remove any wood from the wood pile back to where you found it in the first place.
• Children do not understand the quickness of an accident happening.
• Have four water containers [bucket size] filled with water on hand at all times. have one Hessian sack per bucket al ready in the bucket [WET]
• Strategically placed in a north/ south east and west position.  This allows for ease of access and avoidance of smoke inhalation should anything happen.
• Place lamps around the no-entry area 
• 5 meters away from the centre of the fire.
• These lamps may just be a candle in a tin can that has holes right around it.  The tin will still get hot from the candle but will serve as a warning light while being decorative as well. 
• There are ways of knowing how hot the cooking heat is.  Know them before you start.

Always have an adult within very easy reach from the time the flame has been ignited until everything is well doused with water.  Then covered over and left as it was when the area was chosen to have the camp fire.