He added that it was the hardest performance of his career, describing how he learnt to "fire a musket, build a fire, speak two Native American languages (Pawnee and Arikara) and study with a doctor who specialises in ancient healing techniques".
Gladson said the building's walls and doors were built to keep fire at bay for an hour or two.
In 1732, a new Petersham Lodge was built to replace it after a fire.
This summer, if you want to build a fire to cook, to communicate, or just to have some fun, look to our ancestors, since they perfected it long before we came on the scene!
If you manage to kill a beast, you need to be able to build a fire to cook it so you must develop your camping skills.
"I want to teach my son to build a fire under a starry sky," he said.
Matthew Brown, 16, a junior at New Dorp High School on Staten Island and a scout since he was 5, told how camping regularly at Pouch had taught him to put up different kinds of tents, to whittle wood with a pocketknife to help build a fire and to tie a clove hitch to drag the heavy wood needed to sustain a fire.
Knowing how to build a fire is a basic survival skill you'll need for keeping warm, cooking, sanitizing supplies, and many other purposes.
By folk tradition, the shepherds brought firewood to the cave and built a fire to warm the newborn Christ and his mother throughout the night.
Sangay, David, Tshewang, Ssarma and I managed to build a fire beneath an overhanging boulder.
