Fire safety at the Summer Gathering

Greet­ings — there’s just over a week to go until the 2026 EF! Sum­mer Gath­er­ing in the Peak Dis­trict.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly, we all know the cli­mate cri­sis is respon­si­ble for the scar­i­ly hot and dry weath­er. We have had a sum­mer of heat­waves, and August is unlike­ly to be dif­fer­ent. There are wild­fires all over the world, and cur­rent­ly sev­er­al burn­ing in the Peak Dis­trict.

The gath­er­ing intends to be incred­i­bly care­ful around the risk of start­ing any fires at the site. Some of this is the respon­si­bil­i­ty of the site crew — for exam­ple, we will be hav­ing the heat­ing ele­ment of our kitchen in an off-site, fire safe loca­tion. How­ev­er, fire safe­ty is also about ask­ing every­one par­tic­i­pat­ing to stick to some col­lec­tive agree­ments.

The EF! gath­er­ings col­lec­tive is ask­ing atten­dees:

  • Don’t bring per­son­al camp­ing stoves (if you require your own food for access rea­sons, please email earthfirst.uk@proton.me to dis­cuss)
  • Not to bring any glass bot­tles (they can start fires)
  • To only smoke and vape in our des­ig­nat­ed smok­ing areas, where there will be sand buck­ets for cig­a­rette butts, and water buck­ets & fire extin­guish­ers
  • Don’t have any bar­be­cues or camp­fires