Survival Skills: Three Ways To Start a Fire With Your Flashlight -Video-

Yes, there really are three ways to get fire from a flashlight. For the first one, we need to stack the deck in our favor with a simple trick. Put a book of paper matches inside the flashlight housing on large bodied flashlights.

The next two of the methods of fire starting are based on useful properties of flashlight components, namely an electrical fire with the battery and an optical fire using some tinder and the flashlight’s mirrored cup. Here are the specifics you need to know for each method.

Matches
Using the matches is easy and obvious. Select good ones, and snuggle them down inside large flashlights. This keeps the matches relatively dry, and available as a backup, without interfering with the flashlight’s operation. The match book may not fit in most lights, but it’s always worthwhile to explore back-up gear techniques like this.

Battery & Steel Wool
To use the battery for fire, you’ll need a special ingredient. You’ll need steel wool, which should be carried safely in a dry location away from the battery. The battery and steel wool trick is a neat one. Using a 3-volt or higher voltage battery (or stack of batteries) and some fine steel wool, you can quickly produce a burning ball of steel fibers. This burning steel can then be placed into tinder.

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