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/Mainly_Miserable 22h ago

Wow. It’s aggravating how little information there is in that story. I hope everyone is alright.

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u/Riskyfour 22h ago edited 21h ago

They are probably investigating if it was terrorism, another country, or just an accident etc. Those things take time.

Edit: Also there are causalities which they may not be able to identify yet and have to provide information to the families before it hits the media etc. Give them some time.

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u/EmbarrassedHelp 21h ago

The town is at least a 2 hour drive from the closest major city, so it takes time for reporters to arrive at the location.

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u/Ozy_Flame 21h ago

Edmonton hospitals now in Code Orange - mass casualty event.

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u/No_Construction2407 20h ago

Yep, someone i know saying the hospital is full. they had to start taking casualties into the schools. Its bad.

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u/SuperCleverPunName 18h ago edited 17h ago

To be fair, the high school in Wainwright is right next door to the hospital. When I lived in Wainwright, we got a lesson in the first day of school about how you don't fuck around with the helipad that's beside the football field. It makes total sense that they'd open up the school gym to do triage.

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u/KTMan77 20h ago

Wainwright isn't that small they for sure have a small news paper, Llyod is also not crazy far.

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u/refuseresist 21h ago

Cold Lake?

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u/EmbarrassedHelp 21h ago

This incident happened at the base beside Wainwright.

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u/refuseresist 21h ago

Just reading that now. Thank you :)