New Brunswick quilters busy stitching for Wainwright

Quilters across the country have been called to send quilts to Wainwright, Alberta. This is in response to that explosion at the military base two weeks ago when four service members were killed and many more injured in the fast-moving fire. Quilts of Valour in Fredericton has now shipped 32 quilts and there's more to come. Lynn Mercereau is one of the representatives in the area. She says across Canada, they've been asked for as many as 400 quilts as a gesture of compassion. As most people know, there were 39 that were actually injured. However, the other people on the base were traumatized. And part of Quilts of Valour criteria is... medically or physically injured, and anybody that was there was just so traumatized that we knew that that would help them. A lot of them have been sent home. Mercereau says their quilts are meant to feel like a hug from a grateful nation. They're always in production for service members and veterans who are ill or injured. And nationwide, she says, there are more than 2,000 people on the waiting list.