Tunnel Safety 20 Years after the Mont Blanc Fire - LinkedIn I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn't true. The second, Into the Flames Fire Underground (aired 2006), revisited the circumstances and showed how new technology in the form of a new type of fire extinguisher could have reduced the scale of the disaster and enabled the fire service to reach and remain in the vicinity to fight the fire. They saved several people, ferrying them out to the Italian portal. At 10:54, one of the drivers called from refuge 22 to raise the alarm. The next morning, digging deeper, I uncovered a 97-page, minute-by-minute account of the fire, produced by, Le Service Rgional de Police Judiciaire de Lyon. Sure enough, in December 2017, a car erupted into flames in the tunnel. Since then, Mr. Berthier has become a global evangelist for tunnel fire safety. In school, his classmates called him Spadino the Italian word for rapier because hed been such a skinny kid. The Italian company responsible for operating the tunnel, SITMB, paid 13.5 million ($17.5 million US) to a fund for the families of the victims. [8], On the morning of 24 March 1999, the engine of a Belgian transport truck carrying volatile freight caught fire in the tunnel. It reopened to car traffic in March 2002 and to trucks and buses in the following months. Pedestrians can cross the tunnel by bus; bicycles can also be carried through the tunnel with a reservation. TV documentaries were also made concerning the disaster, all distributed worldwide and focusing on either safety aspects or the circumstances that turned what should have been a serious, but controllable incident into a disaster. Le tunnel du St. Gothard est le plus long (16 920 m), suivi par le tunnel du Mont Blanc et le tunnel des Tauern (11 600 m et 6 400 m respectivement). In all the years since, no reader ever emailed, or phoned, or tweeted a skeptical thought. French police announced last night that as many as 40 trucks . By. He closed the fire door and waited. Smoke from the area around the truck's cab was detected by a tunnel smoke Swiss Tunnel Inferno - CBS News It began on March 24, 1999 when a Volvo FH12 semi-truck from Belgium, carrying a cargo of nine tons of margarine and 12 tons of flour, stopped to pay the toll at the French portal of the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
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