A Fire at CFB Wainwright Killed and Injured People. By 11 p.m. It Was Being Held.
Canada's defense minister said people were killed and injured in an incident at a military base in Alberta that caused a major fire, and reports said large numbers of injured people were being transported to hospitals. Fire crews scrambled late into the night as fierce winds whipped flames beyond Canadian Forces Base Wainwright and into the surrounding rural area. By 11 p.m., the Municipal District of Wainwright said on social media that the fire was being held and that property and critical infrastructure were protected. Defense Minister David McGuinty said the RCMP were involved in investigating the incident and described the situation as 'very, very active and delicate.'
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The medical scale is the part that is hardest to absorb. An emergency department physician in Edmonton said this number of patients would overwhelm the city, and called it a one-in-every-15-to-25-year disaster.
Which is exactly why the unresolved parts should be left unresolved. The RCMP are investigating, the minister calls the situation active and delicate, and authorities were still working to determine what happened and expecting to say more.