WTF really happened at #Wainwright? This quote is circulating on multiple international media outlets:
“This number of patients would overwhelm the city of Edmonton.” And Royal Alex, UofA hospitals are code orange.
The size of #yeg isn’t super well known internationally, so it’s likely that quote doesn’t land as a magnitude gauge outside of Canada.
Details are extremely scarce about how many casualties and what actually happened, but it doesn’t just sound like wind + training = fire.
Kyle Davis
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2026-10-18 12:29:18 UTC
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