• Multiple people have been hurt or killed after a significant fire burned at a large training area on a Canadian Forces Base in east-central Alberta on Saturday.
• Canada's minister of national defence did not confirm how many people died, but CBC News sources tell us there are seven fatalities in the CFB Wainwright incident.
• Officials called a "code orange" response protocol in Edmonton to help care for a high number of patients coming from the base, while the general public was asked to avoid the University of Alberta Hospital emergency department.
• The Department of National Defence told CBC News there were no indications that what unfolded at CFB Wainwright was the result of "any terrorist activity."
• Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said the incident affected "many of our brave military personnel." Prime Minister Mark Carney also described the fire as "serious."
From the AP article:
It was not immediately clear how many people were killed or injured, but a doctor at a hospital in the city of Edmonton, 180 kilometers (112 miles) northwest, told Canada’s national broadcaster that patients were being brought to hospitals across the city as healthcare facilities around the base became “completely overwhelmed” by the number of people needing care.
“This number of patients would overwhelm the city of Edmonton,” Dr. Warren Thirsk, an emergency department physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, told CBC News. “It is more patients than any of us want to count right now. It’s a disaster. It’s a one in every 15- to 25-year disaster.”
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