{"id":939076,"date":"2026-10-19T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939076\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:00:11","slug":"carney-honours-soldiers-killed-at-cfb-wainwright-promises-support-for-full-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939076\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney honours soldiers killed at CFB Wainwright, promises support for full investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Military training doesn’t always stop for fire, senior veteran says<\/p>\n

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Retired major-general weighs in on what may come next after deadly fire on military base<\/p>\n

Retired major-general Scott Clancy spoke to CBC News Network Monday about how training exercises are conducted, fire risks and what might happen next after a deadly blaze at CFB Wainwright in Alberta.<\/p>\n

Defence officials have said that the fire that eventually engulfed CFB Wainwright had burned for hours but was considered under control enough for live ammunition training operations to continue.<\/p>\n

However, a fierce windstorm caused the situation to change rapidly Saturday, sending flames from the grassfire more than a kilometre across the Prairie landscape at lightning speed, stopping soldiers in their tracks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not uncommon for troops to continue training even after flames spark nearby, says Scott Clancy, a retired Major General in the Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

Clancy told CBC News today that soldiers will often continue field training exercises when fires start, noting it’s a standard occurrence managed by military range control.<\/p>\n

He said Wainwright is a very large base and a decision to “carry on” would have been made by range control officers who were managing exercises on site Saturday.<\/p>\n

The investigation to come will “look at the leadership, the culture that was created around that leadership, the orders, the safety regulations [and] the specific decisions to carry on training,” he said, to learn about what went wrong and attempt to prevent similar tragedies in the future.<\/p>\n

“Wildfires … can be smoldering low and then a few minutes later be wild blazing fires. [It] really depends on the fuel, the winds, and the investigation is going to get after all of those things.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Military training doesn’t always stop for fire, senior veteran says Retired major-general weighs in on what may come…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-939076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}