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15 Unique Ways to Start a Fire

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15 unique ways start fire fblighter against a smooth patch of concrete until you accumulate a pile of dust from the flint stick in the lighter. Then you combine that with some tinder, use the lighter to throw a spark at it, and it should easily catch fire.

Imagine you’re lost in an abandoned city after the end of the world as we know it. The sun is going down and the air is getting cold, but your one and only lighter is out of fuel, and you don’t have any other fire-starting tools. What do you do?

Simple. You slowly grind your lighter against a smooth patch of concrete until you accumulate a pile of dust from the flint stick in the lighter.

Then you combine that with some tinder, use the lighter to throw a spark at it, and it should easily catch fire. That is just one of 15 clever and unique ways to start a fire.

15 Unique Ways to Start a Fire

15 Unique Ways to Start a Fire - Simple. You slowly grind your lighter against a smooth patch of concrete until you accumulate a pile of dust from the flint stick in the lighter. Then you combine that with some tinder, use the lighter to throw a spark at it, and it should easily catch fire.