VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-10-19
“uncommonly strong winds caused it to spread rapidly”
Wade Rutland · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-19
Rutland said a grass fire ignited on a training range 1km away before strong winds spread it toward soldiers on exercises.
This quote was mechanically extracted from the cited article and verified as an exact substring of the source text before publication. Attribution follows the article's own wording.