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Canada deploys 50 investigators to probe military base fire that killed 4 soldiers
The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service is leading the probe as officials examine why training continued after the fire was known.
- On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that 50 investigators are probing a fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta that killed four soldiers and injured 39 others during training.
- A grass fire broke out Saturday during live-fire training, but military officials believed it was contained until ferocious winds suddenly shifted and caused the blaze to jump a fire guard.
- About 84 members of Charlie Company were preparing for a spring NATO mission in Latvia when the fire swept into their training area, killing Sgt. Shaun Farrell, Pvt. Aidan Goulding, Sgt. Morgan Wong, and Pvt. Hayden Lykkemark.
- Nineteen of the injured remain in critical condition. The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service, supported by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, leads the probe, Carney said.
- Gen. Wade Rutland said investigators will examine how the fire spread and whether military safety procedures need to change as Carney pledged to get answers 'as expeditiously and transparently as necessary.
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After the fire on a Canadian military base with several dead, a team of 50 investigators will investigate the events.
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