17 Oct 2026: Major fire at CFB Wainwright

[The Bread Guy]

Son of a bitch, you fought hard troop, rest in peace

Fifth soldier dies following CFB Wainwright fire

Fifth soldier dies following CFB Wainwright fire

A fifth soldier has died following the fire at the Canadian Forces Base Wainwright.

www.ctvnews.ca

This from the info-machine:

Fifth Canadian Armed Forces member dies following incident at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright - Canada.ca

It is with profound sadness that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) confirms the death of a fifth soldier who was receiving medical care in Ontario following the tragic incident that occurred at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright on October 17, 2026.

www.canada.ca

Condolences to family, colleagues and friends

 

[Furniture]

I look forward to the BOI results.

It's deeply personal to me that entirely predictable, and predicted, weather lead to the death of five CAF members. My occupation takes pride in the June 6th 1944 D-Day decision, but now we also need to take some share of the blame for this tragedy.

We likely got too comfortable being ignored, and maybe need a bit more of the Group Captain Stagg backbone.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

I look forward to the BOI results.

It's deeply personal to me that entirely predictable, and predicted, weather lead to the death of five CAF members. My occupation takes pride in the June 6th 1944 D-Day decision, but now we also need to take some share of the blame for this tragedy.

We likely got too comfortable being ignored, and maybe need a bit more of the Group Captain Stagg backbone.

My comment that follows is not aimed at the Wainwright incident, because I wasn’t there and I don’t what happened. I am confident that the BOI will find the facts and will make useful recommendations.

Met Techs are advisors. Very knowledgeable advisors. I have used their services hundreds, if not thousands of times throughout my career (including from you) and would have been foolish to ignore the weather package presented to me.

The trouble is that the responsible commander still has to make and own an operational decision based upon all of the available information and advice from lots of angles- some of which may conflict.

Like you, I will be very interested to see the results of the BOI.