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The tunnel underwent major changes in the three years it remained closed after the fire. [4] Renovations include computerized detection equipment, extra security bays, a parallel escape shaft and a fire station in the middle of the tunnel complete with double-cabbed fire trucks. The safety shafts also have clean air flowing through them via vents.
Dying while trying to rescue survivors of the 1999 Mont Blanc tunnel fire Pierlucio Tinazzi ( Italian pronunciation: [ˌpjɛrˈluːtʃo tiˈnattsi] ; 27 December 1962 Morgex – 24 March 1999 Courmayeur ) was an Italian security guard who died while trying to rescue victims of the 1999 Mont Blanc tunnel fire .
March 24 – France and Italy – Mont Blanc tunnel fire. Thirty-nine people were killed in a tunnel fire between France and Italy. April 30 – Greece – A small vehicle collided with a stopped tanker truck loaded with propane and started a fire near Kamena Vourla, Fthiotis. A huge explosion followed several minutes later killing five people ...
1991 – Multiple collision of 25 vehicles due to fog in A-8 Highway from Bilbao to Behobia near Amorebieta, Spain. Several vehicles caught fire, killing 18, on December, 6. 1999 – 1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel fire—39 deaths, caused by the cargo of a transport truck catching fire while in the tunnel
Pages in category "1999 fires" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Mont Blanc Tunnel fire; S. Sealand Youth Training Center Fire
On October 5, 1999, in morning rush hour two trains – an InterCity 125 High Speed Train and a Class 165 Thames Turbo commuter train – collide at Ladbroke Grove junction near London's Paddington station after the driver of the Thames Turbo fails to stop his train at a red signal. The trains collided at a combined speed of 130 m.p.h ...
Dr. James Bender, a former Army psychologist who spent a year in combat in Iraq with a cavalry brigade, saw many cases of moral injury among soldiers. Some, he said, “felt they didn’t perform the way they should. Bullets start flying and they duck and hide rather than returning fire – that happens a lot more than anyone cares to admit.”
The Mont Blanc Tunnel was originally managed by the two building companies. Following a fire in 1999 in which 39 people died, which showed how lack of coordination could hamper the safety of the tunnel, all the operations are managed by a single entity: MBT-EEIG, controlled by both ATMB and SITMB together, through a 50–50 shares distribution. [4]