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02/8/2009 at 10:09pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 02/8/2009
There is still the flammability issue though. A synthetic tent will catch fully alight in seconds. Is it really worth the risk? Gas lamps can and do flare up, and also can get knocked over.
Is it worth the risk - yes IMO, given the incidence (or lack of them on the whole) of tents catching fire from gas lanterns. There must be 1000's of these used inside tenst every weekend during the camping 'season', when was the last time anyone can say they have heard of a gas lantern causing a tent fire?
Yes a lantern can flare, usuually when being moved about without enough care - how ever these fares are small, it would need to be very near the tent side or roof to have any chance of catching fire. I don't really see this a a likley risk in a typical family type tent as long as you keep it away from the edges of the tent.
Ditto with the risk of a fall leading to a tent fire. It is possible I'm sure, but our lantern is always kept on a table or on the top of a large storage box when in use, not on the floor, and never left unaccompanied, and gnerally not when the kids might be moving about too much.
It probaly won't fall over anyway - it is very stable,and takes quite a knick on it directly to knock it over. more than justa gentle knocok on the side of the table.. If it did it would probably just fall onto the surface it is standing on, if it did fall onto the floor and stay alight, then it still ahs to ctahc the tent alight in a large enough fashion to be a problem out of control.
I tried as an experiment to light a bit of modern synthetic tent fabric - yes you can set light to it, but it wasn't an instant conflagration, it takesa bit of time - presumably becuase of the fire retardent treatment applied to modern tents.
I reckon from that and looking at some of the infamous You Tube tent fire videos that someone near the lamp would have enough time to put out any small fire that might start.
Is it a risk yes, like everything else, but I feel much more at risk driving to the campsite, or walking or cycling around the local town that using a gas lantern.
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