2010
04.25

training shooting range in British Columbia, a province located in western Canada, have caused the biggest since the beginning of this year, a forest fire. As the representative of the Ministry of Defence of the country, during the firing of machine guns with tracer bullets at the range Risks Creek ignited dry grass.

As the “News” , as a result of fire covered 212 hectares of forest. The representative of the local fire service described the fire “the biggest since the beginning of the year. In total this season in the British Columbia forest fires broke out 115, which is 20 more than during the same period last year.

The case of fire as a result of firing practice is not isolated. In July of last year in France teaching the men of the Foreign Legion destroyed the south-eastern suburbs of Marseille. The military fired tracer rounds, but missed by the goals came in the forest, which caught fire. Hurricane-force winds and 30-degree heat helped the lightning spread of fire. In the city there was panic, because of which fire engines could not reach the burning buildings.

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