Founded in 1910 as Camp Fire Girls of America, this organization changed its name and became coed in 1975.
Lufkin said young people view Camp Fire's diversity as an asset and enjoy making friends who are different from themselves.
Nonetheless, Camp Fire adopted a new logo last year and has striven to develop "rebranding" strategies to attract new participants.
One idea that didn't make the campaign was a man sitting by a camp fire with smoke blowing in his face.
There were already signs, such as when TV decorator Linda Barker discovered her boot had melted from being too close to the camp fire.
So light a camp fire, take a dip in the river, watch for otters or freshwater turtles and enjoy the seasonal produce (including homemade beer) made on the premises.
He also found that if modern bones were heated at low temperatures for long periods of time they began to look like bones that had been heated to high temperatures in a camp fire.
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While the Boy Scouts have drawn some criticism for excluding gays and atheists, Camp Fire stresses its inclusiveness and says it welcomes youth and families regardless of race, creed, gender, social status, disability or sexual orientation.
Like the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts of the USA, and other major youth organizations, Camp Fire has seen its membership ranks decline in recent decades, though Lufkin said the numbers have stabilized in recent years.
Nor will displays of facility with weapons, tools, or chocolates, the last in short supply during the Plesistocene Era when men were apparently inventing three men walk into a bar instead of tinkering with that wheel idea or inventing the camp fire.
Minor started a fire camp commissary, providing dry goods, clothing and necessities to the firefighters.
But even if it doesn't come to that, there's little rest in sight for U.S. firefighters like those here at Montana's Gas Creek fire camp.
Ahmed Methqal, a Muslim cleric in the camp, told al-Jazeera television by phone that sniper fire had confined the camp's approximately 30, 000 residents to their houses and that five civilians had been killed.
"The flames were about 100ft, " said Sgt Simon Allsop, watch manager of the Red Watch in Camp Bastion's fire section.
Pte Wood and Pte Hutchinson, both of the Royal Logistic Corps, were killed in a fire at Camp Bastion - the main British military base in Afghanistan.
BANGKOK The number of Myanmar refugees killed in a fire at a camp in Thailand has risen to 35.
The team had hiked two miles from their base camp into the forest to cut fire lines.
OccupyLSX protesters said they had tried to answer such concerns, reorganising their camp "in response to feedback from the fire brigade".
Earlier a statement from Occupy London Stock Exchange said the camp had been reorganised in order to meet fire safety concerns.
But the protesters claim they have tried to answer such concerns, reorganising their camp "in response to feedback from the fire brigade".
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But in the days preceding their second round game against Denmark, disputes over match bonuses stoked the fire of discontent in the Nigeria camp.
The public health chief of Mae Hong Son province, Paisarn Thanyavanichkul, says police and rescue workers found 35 bodies after Friday's fire at the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp.
Then the Android camp had success with 7in tablets like Amazon's Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7, and now Apple supposedly will announce its own smaller iPad in October.
The fire crew was attacked on Wednesday night by youths when they answered a call to deal with rubbish on fire on the Monagh by-pass near a camp occupied by travelling families.
In September, a twin-engine, two-seat AH-1W Cobra helicopter went down during training in a remote area of Camp Pendleton, killing two Marine pilots and igniting a brush fire that burned about 120 acres at the base north of San Diego.
Prosecutors said 34-year-old Platero, of Kingwood, Texas, opened fire on his roommates as they readied for bed at Camp Fallujah on Sept. 23, 2010.
Before long we emerge into a football-field-sized clearing known as Spa Camp, which is equipped with a few old shelters, a fire pit, and an ancient outhouse.
Deborah, there was a truce this afternoon and for the first time since the fighting began, trucks began carrying emergency supplies into the camp, but they almost immediately, it sounds like, came under fire.
Mae Hong Son Gov. Naramol Palawat said the fire destroyed about 100 thatch huts at the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp.
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