The scene outside Wainwright hospital following fire at military base

CBC's Stephanie Cram leads off our coverage from outside of the hospital in Wainwright. Stephanie, I was following along as you were making your way towards Wainwright. You saw emergency vehicles one after another after another passing you by. What information are you getting about the incident? Yeah, so far we still don't know too much information, but right now I'm standing outside of the hospital. We arrived here and there are several ambulances. I've counted 12 now they all have their lights on and behind my camera there's also actually an ambulance bus so that just speaks to the magnitude of how big this situation is impacting the community here and like you said on our way into Wainwright from Edmonton we saw at least five ambulances drive by with their lights on speeding down the highway so I'm unsure if those are tied to this incident but there's likely a good chance that they might be now the base is not too far from where we are. I looked it up. It's about a 10 minute drive from the hospital. We could not see anything from the highway with regards to the base. Couldn't see any lights or anything coming from that direction. And we're being hit with really cold, windy weather right now. And we heard that that added to the situation. It amplified the situation. Right now it's seven degrees but it feels more like three degrees with winds up to 26 kilometers an hour our camera is camera guy is having a hard time with our light it's it's fallen down a few times so it's it's very windy but right now we don't have a ton of information it's unclear if we're going to be getting more information from officers here or our our medical services here in Wainwright but we'll be here all night to see what they're they're willing to tell us you should make sure to stay safe. I know that those winds can be quite dangerous when you're dealing with electrical equipment like the ones that our camera crews use. Stephanie, there is so much conjecture, so many guesses happening, especially on social media. One thing I heard is that they were putting injured people in a nearby school that I guess is next to that hospital in front of which you're standing. Anything like that that you were able to confirm or deny? Yeah, we haven't been able to confirm we just arrived moments ago so we're going to spend some time to figure out if that's in fact true. We have heard accounts that that there's an overflow situation into the school that many of the patients are being shipped to the school which is like you said nearby the hospital but we'll just have to wait and see what more we can find out. Thank you so much for that. Stephanie stay safe and I know you'll be joining us later as more information becomes known. That's CBC's Stephanie Cram on the scene in Wainwright.