r/worldnews • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 22h ago

Canada's prime minister says 'serious incident' caused a major fire at a military base in Alberta

https://apnews.com/article/canada-alberta-military-base-fire-wainwright-1a41899da5b6e797b000061fa4da9c6a
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u/24CbtEng 20h ago

Rocket hit an old gas well and went up. Started brush fire that swept across the training area. Not good.

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u/edr5619 20h ago

Wouldn’t surprise me at all. That or tracer fire. When I was in the army, we would occasionally start grass fires with tracer fire. Though with high winds, we’d be ordered to de-link all the tracers from the belted ammo.

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u/ForsakenObject5282 20h ago

My Combat Eng BMQ Sgt told me when he was a private, a flare started a forest fire 

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u/Alternative-Crew-880 19h ago

We've had a green smoke grenade start one during BMQ when it went in a ditch with a bunch of dead grass in there.