- A live-fire training exercise at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta reportedly ended in a major explosion and wildfire Saturday, leaving at least seven people dead and dozens injured, according to local outlet Global News. The report said a projectile was fired during the FTX that struck "a gas line or gas well" within the base's training area, triggering an explosion before strong winds spread the fire. Located about 130 miles east of Edmonton, CFB Wainwright is a major Canadian Army installation used to prepare troops for combat operations. Bloomberg data shows its training grounds contain natural gas infrastructure, including wells and buried pipelines. NOVA Gas Transmission, called NGTL, appears to have a pipeline that runs through part of an area on the base called "Permanent Danger Area 3B H1." Paratroopers from the Canadian military were seen dropping into a military base following a catastrophic explosion that killed seven people and injured dozens more on Saturday. The blast reportedly occurred after a gas line or well was hit during a live-fire training exercise at Base Wainwright in Alberta, according to Global News. The blaze broke out at around 4pm local time before spreading to the surrounding area. Footage showed members of the Royal Canadian Air Force packing their parachutes shortly after descending onto the base. 'More than a dozen CAF personnel literally parachuting into Wainwright, arriving at the local health centre to respond to the explosion and fire at the nearby Canadian Forces Base,' wrote Global News correspondent Jeff Semple in a post on X. Following the explosion, doctors in Edmonton, around 120 miles northwest of the base, said they were being inundated with patients. 'It is more patients than any of us want to count right now. It's a disaster. It's a one in every 15 to 25-year disaster,' Warren Thirsk, an emergency department doctor at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, told CBC News. This event hits right before