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**The official narrative is moving away from gas wells being involved in the fire- Yet, several eye witnesses made this claim to the media.**  **The soldiers were training for their deployment to Latvia…**

##### [**At least seven other soldiers have been killed at one of the Canadian Armed Forces busiest bases since 2005**](https://ottawacitizen.com/news/fatal-cfb-wainwright-fire-the-latest-tragedy-at-the-alberta-caf-base)

> Before the fire that swept through the training area at CFB Wainwright in Alberta on Saturday, killing four soldiers and injuring 39 more — 19 critically — **“10 Canadians have died in accidents while serving in the military**” since 2020, according to [The Canadian Virtual War Memorial](https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial).

**10 Canadians have died in accidents while serving in the military-most of them at the Wainwright base.**

> **One of those was Cpl. James Choi, a 29-year-old member of the Royal Westminster Regiment based in New Westminster, B.C., who was shot during a nighttime live-fire training exercise at CFB Wainwright in October 2020.**
> 
> **Cpl. Lars Callsen of the PPCLI’s 3rd Battalion was charged** in May 2021 with one count of negligence in Choi’s death, but prosecutors with the **Department of National Defence opted not to pursue the charges, [CBC](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/military-shooting-death-alberta-1.6770888) reported in 2023.**
> 
> **In April 2017, Royal Canadian Dragoons Sgt. Robbery (Bobby) J. Dynerowicz, a 31-year-old veteran of 12 years who’d served two tours in Afghanistan, died in a single-vehicle crash when the light armoured vehicle (LAV) he was commanding crashed on a heavily travelled gravel road on the base.**
> 
> **In November 2014, 20-year-old Pte. Pete Allen, a rookie soldier with barely a year of service under his belt, died from injuries suffered when the three-metre-high lookout-type tower he was standing on collapsed.**
> 
> **Cpl. Christopher Deliva, a 27-year-old from Montreal, died in hospital after suffering serious injuries in May 2007 when the 10-tonne truck he was driving rolled over while rounding a curve at Wainwright,** the Montreal Gazette reported.
> 
> **Another Quebec-born service member, Pte. Patrick Dessureault, a 24-year-old from Alma, is believed to have “died instantly” in September** 2005 when the LAV-III he and three other visiting soldiers from CFB Valcartier were in rolled over into Battle River during a night exercise.
> 
> **Soldiers from other allied countries often visit CFB Wainwright for joint training exercises, one of whom was killed in an airfield accident in 2008.**
> 
> That May, **25-year-old U.S. Army Specialist Josef Cerfus was killed while practicing “swing load” operations with a Chinook helicopter when the netted load fell on him.** He was pronounced dead at the hospital in Wainwright.
> 
> **Its regular personnel are roughly 700 military members and 300 civilians.**

**Busy base? Unruly or undisciplined? I don’t know.**