What signal would you give to a helicopter pilot who was landing in a bad spot? Such as the top looks like grass, but it's really the top of a six-foot-deep swamp?

Arney: "Is that a distress signal? I thought a triangle usually indicates a landing zone for a helicopter?"

Three fires in a triangle is a distress signal. The triangle for "safe place to land" is usually anything BUT a fire: rocks, brush, depressions stomped in snow, etc.

Sue