{"id":50889,"date":"2026-10-18T15:46:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/multiple-people-killed-as-canadian-authorities-tackle-active-blaze-at-alberta-military-base\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:46:03","slug":"multiple-people-killed-as-canadian-authorities-tackle-active-blaze-at-alberta-military-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/multiple-people-killed-as-canadian-authorities-tackle-active-blaze-at-alberta-military-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple people killed as Canadian authorities tackle active blaze at Alberta military base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Situation in Wainwright a \u2018one in every 15 to 25-year disaster\u2019 with the injured taken to hospitals in Edmonton<\/p>\n<p>Multiple people have been killed and injured after a deadly blaze tore through one of Canada\u2019s busiest military training bases in Alberta, Canada\u2019s defence minister said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m saddened to share that there have been both fatalities and injuries as a result of an incident on the base,\u201d said David McGuinty. The defence minister described the situation at CFB Wainwright as \u201cactive and delicate\u201d with the fire being monitored very closely, telling reporters that high winds had worsened the fire.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/18\/serious-incident-alberta-military-base-deaths-injuries-canada-carney-cfb-wainwright\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Situation in Wainwright a \u2018one in every 15 to 25-year disaster\u2019 with the injured taken to hospitals in Edmonton Multiple people have been killed and injured after a deadly blaze tore through one of Canada\u2019s busiest military training bases in Alberta, Canada\u2019s defence minister said on Saturday. \u201cI\u2019m saddened to share that there have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 18:25:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}