At the USAF survival school one of the training revolutions was to build and maintain a fire in very wet conditions and do it in the quickest possible time. It had been raining and snowing for over a week, everything appeard to be soaked. The instructors took us over to some trees and proceeded to remove dead dry branches from the lowest portions of the tree. There were bunches of the stuff. We all had great fires in no time flat.
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