So, when burning there are several safety rules and one of them is how we dress, that’s why professionals have what we call personal protective equipment: helmet, goggles, hood, coat.
And the coat should be thick cotton, gloves, pants of equally thick cotton, and boots.
And what instruments are used?
Here in my hand, I have a Macleod, which serves to open paths to the ground, so that the fire does not cross over;
And then we have the drip torches. It was UTAD who gave us these drip torches, where we have, for example, the oldest drip torch in Portugal, from the 1980s, where a drip oil was adapted to be able to have gasoline here and to be able to start the prescribed fire. This is the drip torch that we use the most in Portugal. We also have one Brazilian and an Australian.
