This sort of thing actually happens. I was burning a pile of pallets one day. I decided to put it out and approached the fire with a fire extinguisher. The pallets saw me coming and exploded like there was an IED under them. Parts of pallets flew in all directions carrying fire with them into the woods hundreds of yards. I was lucky to escape with my life. /s/
Why is it many stories by journalists are so poorly written these days? Or did some Affirmative Action DA with the country write this?
What I see as possible is the kid had a fire and never properly extinguished it. Maybe it was not properly contained in a fire ring of rocks. Maybe the wind picked up and things got out of control. For sure the pallets never exploded after he tried to put out the fire.
Absolutely pitiful writing, isn’t it? Everybody on FR can write better than these idiot “journalists.”
Perhaps the kid didn’t know he was literally playing with fire and it got away from him.
I was 19 once, and an idiot, but I never did something THAT stupid.