# Wainwright base fire recalls deadly 1988 training accident at CFB Chilliwack

https://mins.news/en/video/107096

- CBC News, 2026-10-20 01:17 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMNupjPnFRw

> Fifty investigators are at CFB Wainwright in Alberta after a fast-moving fire killed four service members and injured 39. Pal Mann, a former commandant of the Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering, says the tragedy recalls a deadly training accident at CFB Chilliwack in 1988.

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