As a child I belong to a youth group that is known for teaching fire building skills, which apparently not everyone grasped, even the leadership.  I was once at a large gathering of this group and we were at the closing bonfire and try as they might they couldn’t get it to ignite.  So one parent frustrated by this failure of the others retrieved a road flair from their car and stuffed it into the not burning bonfire, thus did we create fire and then proceeded to my Cabin In The Woods!