St. Albert's Remembrance Day ceremony honours soldiers hurt in CFB Wainwright fire
Four soldiers died and 39 were injured when a grass fire swept onto troops at CFB Wainwright on Oct. 17; St. Albert gathered Wednesday at the Cenotaph.
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Update — November 11, 2026: Four Edmonton-based soldiers, including Sgt. Morgan Wong of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment, were killed in the Oct. 17 fire at CFB Wainwright, and 39 were injured, some still in critical condition on ventilators. On Wednesday, hundreds gathered at Sir Winston Churchill Square and City Hall for a Remembrance Day ceremony hosted by the Loyal Edmonton Regiment and the City of Edmonton, which ended with wreaths laid at the City Hall Cenotaph.
At 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, roughly 300 members of the regiment began marching from Taché Street, across from the St. Albert Royal Canadian Legion, along Veterans Way and St. Anne Street to the Cenotaph. The service began at 11 a.m. with a helicopter flyby, the Last Post and two minutes of silence, and hundreds attended.
It was the first Remembrance Day since a windstorm drove a grass fire onto troops at CFB Wainwright. Four soldiers died and others were injured. Soldiers from Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, CFB Edmonton, were at the attack training. The four dead were all from the 3rd Battalion.
Pte. Liam Ramage, from Red Deer County, suffered severe burns to 40 per cent of his body and is in critical but stable condition in the intensive care unit at the University of Alberta Hospital. Ramage was trying to save fellow soldiers when first responders arrived, and his wife and mother identified him by his feet. His mother, Cheryl Ram
