There was a terrible 'wild' situation at a military training base
in Wainwright, Alberta this week.

They were doing some sort of manouvers in an open grassy area and
there was an existing grass fire they knew about not too far away
but it was not seen as a threat. Then it suddenly took off and I
believe the current totals are 7 soldiers dead and 36 wounded,
close to 20 in critical condition.

When I heard about it I wondered how something like that is even
possible but as it turned out, when the fire took off, it was
moving across the ground at close to 60 MPH, so it obviously
could not be out-run.. Unbelievable..

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There was a terrible 'wild' situation at a military training
base in Wainwright, Alberta this week.

They were doing some sort of manouvers in an open grassy area
and there was an existing grass fire they knew about not too
far away but it was not seen as a threat. Then it suddenly took
off and I believe the current totals are 7 soldiers dead and 36
wounded, close to 20 in critical condition.

When I heard about it I wondered how something like that is
even possible but as it turned out, when the fire took off, it
was moving across the ground at close to 60 MPH, so it
obviously could not be out-run.. Unbelievable..

I also heard, and saw some footage, about that. That is unbelievable and very tragic. The winds must have picked up and started moving the fire quickly in their direction. The news we heard here was that there was also an explosion, or multiple explosions, that may have been related to what the troops were training with. If that is true, and based on the new info you've provided, I wonder if the fire caught them and set the explosives off before they could do anything about it. :(

Also saw one report that suggested the explosions could have been natural gas related, as there are also multiple pipelines/resources in that area.

Mike

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They were doing some sort of manouvers in an open grassy area
and there was an existing grass fire they knew about not too
far away but it was not seen as a threat. Then it suddenly took
off and I believe the current totals are 7 soldiers dead and 36
wounded, close to 20 in critical condition.

Correction on that. I saw there were 4 dead in a few places but
another major Canadian News station had a newer report saying
that 7 were dead. I assumed some of the badly injured had died
and added to the number but everyone is back to saying 4 again.

The news we heard here was that there was also an explosion, or

>multiple explosions, that may have been related to what the troops
>were training with. If that is true, and based on the new info
>you've provided, I wonder if the fire caught them and set the
>explosives off before they could do anything about it. :(

Also saw one report that suggested the explosions could have been natural

>gas related, as there are also multiple pipelines/resources in that area.

The newest reports just a couple of hours ago said that there were
no explosions, gas or munitions, after the fire went wild.

Originally some practice with grenade launchers had started a grass
fire but it was near impossible to get at it so the fire service was
really just 'keeping an eye on it'. Later the wind suddenly changed
direction and picked up enough to have the fire sweep across the
fields where the soldiers were training at something like 56 MPH..

A lot of blame is being tossed around in several directions..

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Also saw one report that suggested the explosions could have
been natural

>gas related, as there are also multiple pipelines/resources
>in that area.

The newest reports just a couple of hours ago said that there
were no explosions, gas or munitions, after the fire went wild.

Originally some practice with grenade launchers had started a
grass fire but it was near impossible to get at it so the fire
service was really just 'keeping an eye on it'.

Maybe that is where the subject of explosions entered the stories we were hearing.

> Later the wind

suddenly changed direction and picked up enough to have the
fire sweep across the fields where the soldiers were training
at something like 56 MPH..

A lot of blame is being tossed around in several directions..

I can imagine. ;(

Mike

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Originally some practice with grenade launchers had started a
grass fire but it was near impossible to get at it so the fire
service was really just 'keeping an eye on it'.

Maybe that is where the subject of explosions entered the stories

>we were hearing.

We were getting the same wrong info here for the first half day or so.
The soldiers were training in an area with automated granade launchers
to teach them how to deploy under certain conditions I guess, so
there were lots of explosions earlier but the fire never got to any
live weaponry or to the base gas lines.

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