Knowing How To Start A Fire In A Dire Survival Situation Can Keep You Alive. Check Out The Ancient Samoan Way To Start A Fire — It's Simple And Reliable!

Starting a fire in a survival situation can be a daunting prospect. Survival is a pass or fail system. There are no runners-up.

So if you aren't able to get a fire going in when you need to cook that meat you just got ahold of, or you need to boil water to drink safely, you're going to suffer.

For this reason, a large repertoire of ways to start fires is important. Knowing how to start a fire with different methods is important because you could run out of matches, your lighter could run out of fluid, or you could find yourself deprived of both. This is especially the case if you find yourself unexpectedly needing to start a fire (for example, if you fall in the cold water far from your camp, or your vehicle breaks down on a less-traveled road).

Most people know about the friction method of spinning a stick on a flat piece of wood to start a fire, but fewer know about the simpler and less frustrating method employed by Polynesians.

On the next page, you'll learn how to start a fire in the ancient Samoan way, a method that is still used to this day.

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