Three of the dead were no-hook privates. Literally just starting their careers.

The scary part is that this was just a grass fire. Those happen all the time in training areas. You’re firing tracers, explosives, etc. It’s very, very easy to start a fire. They happen at least once a week during routine training like this. You call it in, range control takes care of it. They had no reason to expect this would be any different.

Then the wind changed and suddenly the fire was moving towards them at 100km/h.

This is absolutely crazy at how fast it took hold on them.

With this kind of tragedy, will the CAF or whichever branch of military looks after these kind of training scenarios change how they’re done to make it safer for our troops?

Absolutely tragic and I hope our government does everything it can to help the troops that suffered with post support for the rest of their lives.

They dedicated their lives to protecting us, our government should dedicate itself to helping them, and their families with those that passed from this incident.

Just sad that this happened. I’m sorry

I’m sure this will be the domino that makes the feds take climate change seriously.