CFB Wainwright fire sparked by live training exercise, causes explosion: sources

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A Rhode Island man was arrested Sunday morning for allegedly breaking into and damaging an Attleboro middle school and assaulting multiple police officers, police said. Jamison Grover, 25, of Pawtucket, faces three counts of assault and battery on a police officer, breaking and entering in the nighttime, and other charges, Attleboro Police said. He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Attleboro District Court. Grover also allegedly took property belonging to a student from the school and damaged 13 window screens, for which he faces an additional 13 counts of malicious destruction of property over $1,200, police said. Officers responded to Brennan Middle School on Rathbun Willard Drive around 4:45 a.m. on Sunday after an alarm system in the building registered motion in several locations, police said. A search of the school revealed numerous lockers had been “rummaged through,” police said. Grover was located after officers determined he had allegedly entered one of their police cruisers while it was parked outside during their investigation, police said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A National Guard member was shot and injured while trying to break up a fight in the nation’s capital, and the person suspected of firing the gun also was shot in an exchange with guard members, police said Monday. The shooting happened at about 11:10 p.m. Sunday as seven or eight guard members in a parked van were monitoring the fight on a sidewalk in southeast Washington, in the Eastern Market neighborhood, said Jeffery Carroll, interim chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington. “They exited their vehicle to try to intervene to try to stop the fight from occurring when they heard gunshots,” Carroll told reporters. “An individual that had been involved in the fight had pulled out a firearm and began shooting.”The person ran into an alley, Carroll said, and guard members immediately told the person to drop the gun. “The individual then pointed the weapon toward National Guard members, who returned fire,” Carroll said. Get Starting PointA guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter EmailHe said one guard member was struck in the leg and the suspect was shot in the abdomen.

Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday pledged to give one share of his company SpaceX to “every kid in America” next year. The offer arrived a day after artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced in a social media post that it will commit 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund. In a response to that Sunday post, Musk wrote, “I recommend giving the shares directly to the public.”Shares of SpaceX, which will report its quarterly earnings on Tuesday, closed at $146.03 on Friday. Anthropic said Sunday that the shares it is committing will go to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity within the company. The fund’s worth will potentially increase as the shares grow in value. Musk did not provide further details on how his share pledge will be carried out, but did add in his post that “This will be the first of many.”The announcements by Musk and Anthropic arrive as Americans grow increasingly wary of AI.

Training at CFB Wainwright in Alberta is “as real as it can be” to prepare soldiers for combat operations, says a retired Canadian Armed Forces major-general. Four military members were killed, and dozens were injured after a fire broke out at the massive military base’s training area on Saturday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said at a press conference in Ottawa Sunday. Retired Maj.-Gen. David Fraser, who spent much of his over 30-year military career training at CFB Wainwright, said that training can involve up to thousands of people depending on the exercise. Some exercises are individual he said, providing an example of a member shooting a rifle at a gun range. Others are known as collective exercises, which involve two or more members, he said. “They’re progressive,” Fraser said in an interview Sunday. “You start off with one person and you end up at some stage in the game probably with 5,000 or 6,000 people,” he said. Story continues below advertisement