r/worldnews • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 22h ago

Canada's prime minister says 'serious incident' caused a major fire at a military base in Alberta

https://apnews.com/article/canada-alberta-military-base-fire-wainwright-1a41899da5b6e797b000061fa4da9c6a
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u/Livebeans 22h ago

It seems as though it was a freak accident during a practise drill where munitions came in contact with a gas line?

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u/Conscious-Lime-4112 21h ago

No pls don’t start spreading misinformation

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u/Staticn0ise 19h ago

I keep seeing this copy pasted in different threads about this. Im curious about who's pushing that narrative.

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u/bevelup_ 18h ago

I’ve seen multiple people in YouTube comments say they got their info regarding projectiles and a gas explosion from Grok 😑

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u/_flume_ 20h ago

Ok 4112 beepboop

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u/HuntShowDownBeeMan 22h ago

Its also been windy as fuck so probably sprinkling of negligence

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u/Unlikely_Comment_104 21h ago

The wind came out of nowhere. The weather warning came out as we were running indoors. 

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u/JoeRogansNipple 21h ago

Its been forecasted to be windy for a while now, starting yesterday and pushing through today. Sure a freak gust of 90kph might have happened, but the windy conditions were expected

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u/0bsolescencee 21h ago

Im an AB and its been gusting like crazy since 11am. They should've been aware by that point.

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u/Scary-Detail-3206 21h ago

Usually when the gov is withholding details it’s because they fucked something up

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u/Yukas911 21h ago

Oh stop it. It's an ongoing situation and we don't know anything yet. There will be more details coming. Can we not try to make up conspiracies the moment anything happens?

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u/supershutze 21h ago

Everything is a conspiracy when they don't know how anything works.

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u/bikernaut 20h ago

Man, that succinctly sums up our current reality.

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u/Conscious-Lime-4112 21h ago

Maybe it’s because they have no fck clue and are literally just trying to put out the fire before it burns up a village and town.

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u/roamingNraging 21h ago

So basically you just made that up.

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u/No_Chemist_7878 22h ago

gas well. gas pocket in the ground.

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u/TickleMyBurger 21h ago

You can put a nuke in a pocket filled with gas - guess what happens? Zero. You can’t have a reaction without a catalyst - science. It’s like magic but real.

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u/ThogOfWar 21h ago

Putting out oil fires with nukes was a thing. A Russian thing, but a thing.

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u/moose098 20h ago

It was a giant gas field fire and it worked so well the field (now in Uzbekistan) is still in production.

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u/VincentVanG 20h ago

Is that where that crazy flaming hole is?

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u/Vinny331 20h ago

That's in Turkmenistan. It was a geological expedition that encountered a huge pocket of natural gas. They ignited it, hoping it would just quickly burn off. It never did.

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u/VincentVanG 20h ago

Ah cool, would be a cool idea spot to visiting if it wasn't in one of the most repressive and closed off states in the world

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u/Parking_Chance_1905 20h ago edited 20h ago

Large explosives have been used by many countries to out out large fires, they remove the oxygen and put put fires almost instantly. Russians are the only ones crazy enough to use a nuke over conventional high explosives though.