[Terriergal]

""The ammo could have exploded and shot all over," McGovern said. "If it got hot enough and the gunpowder ignited, the rounds would have become projectiles shooting out of the home." "

This is baloney

It may be baloney but if that was the information they were going on... what were they supposed to do, have a lecture in the middle of a fire about how it doesn't work that way?

[tpaine]

Read the thread. Several posts document that firefighters are well aware of the supposed 'dangers' of ammo cooking off.

[GovernmentShrinker]

And there was also the matter of the grenades, which later proved not to be live, but in a house with hundreds of guns (many loaded) scattered around, and littered with ammo, I wouldn't expect any firefighter to take this nutjob's word on the status of the grenades.

[Poser]

" It may be baloney but if that was the information they were going on... what were they supposed to do, have a lecture in the middle of a fire about how it doesn't work that way?"

If there is a fireman out there that doesn't know that gunpowder and/or bullets don't explode when burned, it's time for some training.