Disclaimer: Never _EVER_ try to start a campfire with white gas or any kind of flammable liquid. Start a fire properly, else serious injury or lost of life might resulted.

Disclaimer: This is NOT professional advice. The information here is based on own experience. For educational purpose only.

Actually, this should be titled "How NOT to Start a Campfire"...

Enough disclaimer, let's shoot to the point. Here's the steps to start a fire with any kind of flammables.
1) Stack up fire woods as you would normally start a fire properly (ie stuff with dry leafs, paper and etc.)
2) Pour a good amount of fuel on the woods, the fluid should be on the base of the stack so the flames will light up the rest of the stack.
3) Quickly light up the fuel before it evaporates. Ideally, light up a piece of material (ie twisted paper) and feed it to the woods. If there is no choice but have to light up directly from lighter/matches, stay away as much as possible and stay low while igniting. Move away quickly from the fire once the fuel ignited.
4) Let the fuel burns to start up the woods.
5) If very unfortunately the fuel is not able to start the fire, repeat steps 1 to 5.
6) As a LAST resort if repeats does not success on starting the fire, spread fuel directly into the flames by squeezing the plastic bottle to shoot a stream of fuel. Be sure to shoot from a low-to-high angle from a distance (at least 2-3 feet) and only shoot in short burst. A continue stream out of the bottle might draw the fire back into the bottle, which is very dangerous to say the least.....
7) Hopefully, now the fire started.....

These are just the luckiest failure consequences of using flammable to start a fire:

Burned fuel bottle Leg with no hair

There's many things to be aware of:
- White gas (stove fuel) seem extremely volatile, compared to rubbing alcohol and special fire starter fluid. Use it with extra caution.
- Never pour fuel onto top of a burning fire. The heat will ignite the fuel and create a upward blow, it will resulted in burning fuel spread all around. You will get burn this way!!!
- Make sure to keep the campfire area clean of any items, you may cause wild fire.
- Do not use water to kill burn fuel, the fuel is lighter than water and flow on top of it.

Pictures: stay away from fire and shoot low-to-high

Burn baby, burn Shooting from low-to-high

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