Major fire at CFB wainwright

[McG]

The esri map has the fire more west in training area as opposed to permanent danger area.

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[brihard]

Multiple air ambulance have been in and out, ongoing. A Herc appears to be inbound from Winnipeg.

 

[OldSolduer]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/livestory/cfb-wainwright-fire-live-updates-9.7385537

From CBC

 

[RangerRay]

Flightradar shows an air ambulance from Saskatchewan in the vicinity.

 

[ArmyRick]

prayers for those involved

 

[Czech_pivo]

Flightradar shows an air ambulance from Saskatchewan in the vicinity.

I see one landing now in Edmonton that came from the base

 

[Rjgillies]

Tracking on Flightradar shows multiple fixed wing air ambulances and STARS rotary from both Alberta and Saskatchewan. Story has gone active south of the Border

Large fire breaks out after deadly incident at Canadian military base, officials say

Canada's defense minister said Saturday that people were killed and injured in an incident at a military base in Alberta that caused a major fire.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Czech_pivo]

Tracking on Flightradar shows multiple fixed wing air ambulances and STARS rotary from both Alberta and Saskatchewan. Story has gone active south of the Border

Large fire breaks out after deadly incident at Canadian military base, officials say

Canada's defense minister said Saturday that people were killed and injured in an incident at a military base in Alberta that caused a major fire.

www.cbsnews.com

Europe/Asia covering it now.
Guardian, Deustch Welt, India.

 

[daftandbarmy]

The same quote was reported on CBC just now:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2111669866600239455

 

[OldSolduer]

Jesus H Christ. I wonder how many fatalities there really are.
My thoughts at this time are with those families whose loved ones have died. May they Rest In Peace.

 

[brihard]

I know what I’m hearing from sources I consider credble, and I know that’s being challenged from someone else I consider, individually, very credible. What I believe right now is the situation is fluid, the situation definitely sucks, we’ve probably lost troops, the most informed people aren’t here talking about it, we’re in an info lag and we’re all waiting for solid word and hoping for the least bad outcome against a lot of shitty indicators. So I’ll keep those affected in my thoughts and hope against hope for the best.

 

[brihard]

Frigl… Air MEDEVAC are still flying loops. STARS helicopter out of Calgary and fixed wing Saskatchewan air ambulance out of Saskatoon are both inbound to Wainwright now, and I think another fixed wing from Slave Lake. God this is bad.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Global News: 7 dead, dozens injured in explosion and fire at CFB Wainwright | Globalnews.ca

Claims to have spoken to CAF sources.

 

[HavokFour]

Global News: 7 dead, dozens injured in explosion and fire at CFB Wainwright | Globalnews.ca

Claims to have spoken to CAF sources.

Going to be a real bad look for Global News if the gas line / well explosion being the cause isn't true. It's been spreading like crazy on social media even before they reported it.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Going to be a real bad look for Global News if the gas line / well explosion being the cause isn't true. It's been spreading like crazy on social media even before they reported it.

Agreed and I just can’t see that being true. Alberta had the same wind today that we had- very, very strong. An accidental grass or brush fire would hyper accelerate likely as fast as a guy could run. No other fuel required.

Edit: it’s Jeff Semple who is source author. Generally pretty decent reporter with good DND contacts.

 

[Furniture]

Agreed and I just can’t see that being true. Alberta had the same wind today that we had- very, very strong. An accidental grass or brush fire would hyper accelerate likely as fast as a guy could run. No other fuel required.

I really hope it wasn't the fire spreading faster than people were able to get out...

 

[daftandbarmy]

More plausible, and terrifying as well of course.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2111683864158675172