Camping Safety

[AK-Eagle 19]

Next time you are wondering why the policy says no liquid fuels to start fires think of the following from the KINY radio website. BTW this was not a scouting activity I just thought it would make good reading material.

 

Haines area man dies of injuries sustained in fire

The man severely burned when a wood stove exploded at his Chilkat Lake cabin near Haines Tuesday night had died at a Seattle hospital.

 

Gene Stuart, who was 62, passed away at 7:30 Thursday morning due to complications from his injuries, according to State Troopers.

 

State Troopers have determined that Stuart was re-lighting a wood fire in the stove by tossing some

diesel fuel on the wood. Troopers think there must have an ember in the stove that caused the fuel to explode and spray Stuart.

 

The fire quickly spread and totally consumed the cabin.

 

Friends at the cabin were instrumental in getting Stuart to drop and roll, putting the fire out on his clothes, and then getting him out of the cabin before it burned down.

 

Burn injuries to his lungs resulted in his death. The investigation is continuing.

 

Stuart was transported to Juneau Tuesday night from Haines by a Coast Guard helicopter.

 

He was later transported via commercial air service to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center.

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[SteveK 10]

Sounds like a Darwin Award winner to me.