Thank you Chris. Right now my priorities are for a couple of wool blankets. (The Esbit stoves and Doan magnesium bars will either wait or I'll just forget about them) Commercially available wool blankets are hard to come by and are so expensive, such is the Hudson's Bay point blanket and the one from customwoolenmills are too short and also a bit pricey. I visited the store where they issue gear for the Scouts in Montréal and found $20 so called "camp fire blankets" and it was written 50% recycled wool, 50% unknown fibers, dry clean only on the label. I don't know if it's a good choice but it sounds like they would be ideal for smothering flames in an emergency. After browsing several army surplus websites I'm leaning toward the swiss and italian 100% wool but they are "used like new condition". I guess you can't go too wrong with used wool blankets and just wash them to remove the smell. They had wool trousers at the local military surplus stores but they were indeed worn out.