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[Davey Crockett]

Election today in Alberta.

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[Gripen9]

Canadian Army Range Officer, Major Vijanyagar Singh, has confirmed that the artillery shell PFC Gupta fired was carried by the dry 70 mph winds to a natural gas well adjacent to the ammo depot, where 300 troops were being housed.

Anyone ever asked "What can go wrong?"

I was being facetious...
Read Major Singh and PFC Gupta and immediately thought Indian army was buingling things up in the north as well.

 

[Davey Crockett]

I was being facetious...
Read Major Singh and PFC Gupta and immediately thought Indian army was buingling things up in the north as well.

Same here.....

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

I am a supporter of the Canadian Dominion Society. I want all black and brown immigrants deported.

https://youtube.com/@dominionsoc?si=IOkz9m9iA2MIbGuc

Would that include you?

 

[clutch]

Would that include you?

If it includes born Canadians that have been here for almost a century... Sure. If not... Then no.

 

[j_hungary]

If this is what was written then whoever wrote it is either an idiot or wasn't listening to what was being said. The artillery shell was carried by the wind? Must have been a very light shell then.

The more likely wording was the fire was started by the explosion of the shell which was then carried by the winds to the NG well and ammo depot.

Such a fire is not uncommon. Some of the ranges I shoot at ban certain calibers. Had one year at Ben Avery where someone was shooting a .50BMG. The round skipped off a rock which caused a spark when in turn started a grass fire that burned over half the hillside.

Depends on what kind of shell they are firing live.

If it was a standard HE (High Explosive) shell, it shouldn't start a fire that big, as it is more Bang than Flash, eveyrthing would have burned up in the explosive. HE rounds usually kill by shrapnel, not explosive force or explosive content. Also, most HE rounds have a proximity fuze; it's highly unlikely to be detonated on the ground.

Unless the round had fuel in it (not fuel like gasoline but chemical like Magnesium), it shouldn't burn like that.

Not sure about the landscape in Wainwright, but in places like where I live now, flash fire can turn quickly with a wind change; it takes around 30 minutes for fire to change direction completely if there is a fire already in the region, the fire likely has nothing to do with the live fire exercise