{"id":807214,"date":"2026-10-19T04:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807214\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T04:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:12:12","slug":"four-dead-and-39-in-hospital-after-canada-military-base-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807214\/","title":{"rendered":"Four dead and 39 in hospital after Canada military base fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;It was like a scene out of a war movie,&#8217; says hospital residentpublished at 21:19 BST 18 October<\/p>\n<p>21:19 BST 18 October<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man is sitting in a wheelchair, with his arms on the arm rest, on a pavement next to what appears to be a residential street with several trees and cars parked next to the curb. The man has a black goatee and is wearing a black cap with black tinted glasses and a black hoodie.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/08b1d4cd-d2c4-4d38-a25a-3214316a49d2.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brandon Simmons, who lives in long-term care at the Wainwright Health Centre, witnessed the aftermath of the fire at the military base last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He tells Reuters news agency that the site went into code orange and that nurses had dropped everything and immediately started grabbing stretchers, gurneys and any medical equipment they could before running to the front entrance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the same time, he says, a military vehicle arrived at the centre and started unloading injured people, while nurses tried to stabilise everyone and \u201ccalm them down\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brandon says he remembers seeing people with burns, while one person had their clothes &#8220;blown off&#8221; and was wearing only underwear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I heard people screaming inside of those vehicles that will never end up being out of my mind,&#8221; he recalls, saying it was &#8220;like a scene from a war movie&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brandon says ambulances kept coming &#8220;throughout the night&#8221;, with between 12 and 20 parked along the road at one time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;It was like a scene out of a war movie,&#8217; says hospital residentpublished at 21:19 BST 18 October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-807214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}