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Posting only because it was news to me when I attended Brownsea (Boy scout camp from the 70's where they treat you like shit and have you build stuff with rope and logs.)
Star Fires. Appperantly they were used on the frontier a lot so that if a raiding band came by, you could shut down the light quickly, and then relight it when they were gone by shoving the sticks back together in the center.
