With a lifetime of heating with a wood stove, burning trees and limbs blown down in storms, and some years now of testing fire pits for Popular Mechanics, I’ve learned a thing or two about starting ...

No matches? No problem. With just sugar and a few household items, you can start a fire in a survival situation. In this video, we show step-by-step how this simple sugar trick works. Perfect for ...

V. Paul Reynolds learning to start a fire with a primitive bow drill at the Puckerbrush gathering recently in Columbia Falls. Tim Beal, from Whiting, taught Reynolds the finer points of bow drilling, ...

Wildfires are a fact of life in Northern Nevada — most of them human-caused and preventable. In July alone, five wildland fires burned roughly 1,700 acres in Washoe County. Three were determined to be ...