Fire Training Goes Bad, Damages Two Brooklyn Park Homes

BROOKLYN PARK, MN — A fire training exercise gone bad left two homes damaged Monday in Brooklyn Park. City fire crews were conducting a training exercise at a soon-to-be demolished house when the wind changed directions. The wind blew heat across the street, which melted a portion of the exterior of two homes near 107th Avenue and Winnetka Avenue North around 2:30 p.m.

“It was an anomaly in the weather,” Brooklyn Park Fire Chief Ken Prillaman told the Star Tribune. “I’ve never seen homes across the street suffer damage. It was a very unusual circumstance.” Nobody was injured in the incident, and Prillaman told the newspaper that no structural damage occurred.

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