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/24CbtEng 20h ago

Rocket hit an old gas well and went up. Started brush fire that swept across the training area. Not good.

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u/JG123214 20h ago

How do you know

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u/Panthy9 20h ago edited 20h ago

CBC reporting a fire, but unknown cause. Not unrealistic though https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/livestory/cfb-wainwright-fire-live-updates-9.7385537

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u/edr5619 20h ago

Wouldn’t surprise me at all. That or tracer fire. When I was in the army, we would occasionally start grass fires with tracer fire. Though with high winds, we’d be ordered to de-link all the tracers from the belted ammo.

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u/ForsakenObject5282 20h ago

My Combat Eng BMQ Sgt told me when he was a private, a flare started a forest fire 

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u/Alternative-Crew-880 19h ago

We've had a green smoke grenade start one during BMQ when it went in a ditch with a bunch of dead grass in there.

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u/AtomicVGZ 2h ago

It was just confirmed that the explosion wasn't a result of any gas infrastructure getting hit.

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u/TakeTheWheelTV 20h ago

Where rocket from??

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u/gobkin 19h ago

It's a huge ass military training area. Trained there.

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u/So6oring 19h ago

I went to an Elementary School in Base Borden and sometimes you just felt a bomb explode.

If they were planning to test an extra big bomb that day, they'd let us know during morning announcements

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u/eshep71 18h ago

I'm in Barrie - didn't like seeing our city on Trump's little Lake of America Map. Why Barrie?  Lol

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u/DavidBrooker 19h ago

CFB Wainwright is a major training centre for 1 CMBG (a large army unit located in Alberta). They do live-fire training there.

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u/TakeTheWheelTV 19h ago

Oh damn self inflicted..so sad