Premier Doug Ford announced the province rushed Sunnybrook burn unit specialists to Alberta to help care for those injured in the fire on CFB Wainwright.
Ford was visiting the Royal Canadian Legion Coronation Branch 286 for Remembrance Day and told Humber Et Cetera of the efforts by the province for those who were injured in the Oct. 17 fire at the training base. Four soldiers were killed, and 39 others were wounded, 19 of them critically.
“We have the best burn unit in the entire country at Sunnybrook, and we sent them out there,” he said.
Former armoured crewman Kevin Dobbyn of the 1st Hussars said he used to train soldiers at CFB Wainwright and could see how a fire could get out of control in the training base.
Wainwright was where he first encountered a sandstorm, so he isn’t surprised a fire could move so quickly in the vast training fields.
“There's a lot of small trees, there's a lot of just wide open plains, like wide open prairie,” he said.
Branch President Ron Gregory honoured the four service members who died in the deadly fire at the base during the Remembrance Day ceremony. The service members were Pte. Aidan Goulding, Pte. Shaun Farrell, Pte. Hayden Lykkemark, and Sgt. Morgan Wong.
