Spread of CFB Wainwright fire to training area part of investigation, provost marshal says

Thank you. To General Carignan and Major General Rutland, during the last briefing, we heard that the commander on the ground said it went from not seeing the fire to it suddenly being on top of them. Can you help us better understand why so many people were killed and injured, why they won't be able to escape, and if there was some sort of evacuation plan or not? So every time we run training events, we always have mitigation measures set into place Now we will have to wait for the investigation to answer all of those questions, Ashley. Your follow-up question? To the Provost Marshall, can you help us understand why firefighters couldn't put out the fire? You said that they had to monitor it nearby. And did that mean that people had to escape also later on by foot? So what I can tell you, Ashley, is that the information we have confirmed to date is that when the fire originated on the automatic grenade launcher range, it could not be put out because of the location of the fire at the time and they monitored that throughout the day. That is not the range whereby the incident took place that resulted in the fatalities. It was the spread of the fire across the training area to the range that they were using that is under investigation at this time.