Four Fort Wainwright soldiers have been questioned for shooting at a firefighter with a pellet gun.

Four soldiers reportedly pulled up in a vehicle alongside the firefighter, who was running near a road on the post last week, and fired the gun. A manager with the Bureau of Land Management's Alaska Fire Service said the firefighter was hit by the pellets but not seriously injured.

The firefighter was hit twice, in the back and elbow, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported Tuesday.

"The pellets did not break his skin but they produced welts," said John Gould, manager of the Bureau of Land Management's Alaska Fire Service.

The firefighter is a specialist with the Alaska Fire Service at Fort Wainwright. Most of the 20-member team recently began training for the coming season.