Fire at Canadian military base kills seven, CBC reports

By Amanda Stephenson CALGARY, Oct 18 (Reuters) At least seven people died in a major fire this weekend at a Canadian military base in Alberta, CBC ​News reported on Sunday. Canadian authorities said there were deaths ‌and injuries at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright but they have not released any casualty figures. CBC, the government-funded national broadcaster, cited unnamed sources for the death toll. The base, one of Canada s largest, is ‌about ​210 km (130 miles) east of Edmonton ⁠in Alberta, and National ⁠Defense Minister David McGuinty said on Sunday he would go to the city to be briefed on the situation. Few details have been released about the fire, which took place ​about 4 p.m. (2200 GMT) Saturday in a training area at the base as winds gusted up to 60 ⁠miles per hour (96 kilometers per hour). Describing ⁠the blaze as terrible on Saturday, the minister ​said, I cannot recall an incident like this in recent memory. Health ​staff in Edmonton said a code orange, or mass c