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
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.
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 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.