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	CNN.com - Austria ski tunnel fire case opens - June 18, 2002
		Thirteen of the defendants are charged with negligence leading to the outbreak of the fire, and three are charged with negligent endangerment of public safety.
		Investigators have traced the fire to a defective heater in the driver's cabin and overheated oil.
		No fire protection measures in either the train or the tunnel were available and the door from the tunnel to the summit station did not close.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/06/18/austria.trial/index.html (384 words)

	Summit tunnel fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The three train crew could see fire spreading through the ballast beneath the other track in the tunnel, so they ran the remaining mile to the south portal (where they knew there was a direct telephone connection to the signaller) to raise the alarm.
		The fuel supply to the fire was so rich that some of the combustibles were unable to find oxygen inside the tunnel to burn with: they were instead ejected from blast relief shafts 8 and 9 as superheated, fuel-rich gases that burst into flame the moment they encountered oxygen in the air outside the tunnel.
		Firstly, the size of the fire: it is probably the biggest underground fire in transportation history, certainly bigger than the Channel Tunnel fire (a relatively meagre 350 megawatts) and probably bigger than the ill-defined Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Summit_tunnel_fire (1416 words)

	Encyclopedia: Summit tunnel fire
		The Summit tunnel in England is one of the oldest railway tunnels in the world: it was built between 1838 and 1841 beneath the Yorkshire Dales.
		Chunnel in cross section The Channel Tunnel, (French: le tunnel sous la Manche; often nicknamed the Chunnel in English) is a rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Straits of Dover, connecting Cheriton in Kent, England and Sangatte in northern France.
		Summit County is located approximately 70 miles west of Denver in the Central Rocky Mountain Region of the state.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Summit-tunnel-fire (2252 words)

	Eyewitness accounts from 1910 Fire
		The fire was coming on fast, already it was beginning to throw shadows in the camp, and we could hear a rumble like a railroad train crossing a bridge.
		Looking down the valley, one could see the fire coming on with a rush and a roar that once seen and heard can never be forgotten, and the flames leaping 300 feet high meet in an arch extending from one hill top to the other.
		The mine timbers at the mouth of the tunnel caught fire, so I stood up at the entrance and hung wet blankets over the opening, trying to keep the flames back by filling my hat with water, which fortunately was in the mine, and throwing it on the burning timbers.
	www.idahoforests.org /fires2.htm (3057 words)

	Railroad and Metro Tunnel Accidents
		The tunnel is situated inside the city of Baltimore, and a huge quantity of smoke poured out of the tunnel at various access points.
		Thus the tunnel may not be of essential significance to the outcome of the incident.
		The fire brigade and rescue personnel were present outside the tunnel gateway 10 minutes after the burning train had come to a stop.
	home.no.net /lotsberg/artiklar/andersen/en_table_1.html (3165 words)

	Next stop — Tunnel 13 - May 9, 2004
		After battling a tunnel fire that began Nov. 17, then removing huge timbers and tons of rock and dirt from the collapsed sections, construction crews expect to reopen it early in June.
		In addition to the mountain of debris, the work was delayed by the fire which continued to smolder into February as well as heavy snow that fell this past winter, he said.
		Built in the 1880s under the Siskiyou Summit, the tunnel made history on Oct. 11, 1923, when 23-year-old twins Ray and Roy D’Autremont and their teenage brother Hugh attempted to rob a Southern Pacific Railroad train near the south entrance.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2004/0509/local/stories/01local.htm (1012 words)

	Bull Sheet Monthly News
		Fire units responded to the blaze, and air raid sirens in the city were sounded..
		Fire officials added that although they had not previously had any drills within the Howard Street Tunnel, they had conducted a drill rather recently in one of the city's Amtrak tunnels using a MARC train, as well as drills in a Metro tunnel.
		She survived earthquakes and derailments and wars, the recessions of the 60's and 70's, Amtrak and Metrolink, a fire, a tragic passenger train crash in 1956, and still stood proudly her redwood construction which was the last of its kind in California.
	www.bullsheet.com /news/200108.html (4911 words)

	Caltrans Sept. 12, 1974 Tunnel
		Drill and shoot tunneling can be used in the shales and sandstones and this is the most probable method with the granite in the southerly length of tunnel.
		The tunnel lining serves to divide the ventilation system from the roadway, control groundwater seepage, provide a smooth surface to lessen damage to impacting vehicles, and give an even surface for reflecting the tunnel lighting.
		Tunnel finish provides a highly reflective, washable surface to the walls of the vehicle portion of the tunnel.
	www.montara.com /tunnel/CaltransTunnelDocs (2259 words)

	Transportation Systems
		At approximately a mile and a half in length, it is dwarfed by the Channel Tunnel and the road and rail tunnels in North America and Europe.
		The builders of the Summit Tunnel used wooden towers on the moors to lay out the line for the ventilation shafts and below in the excavated cavern candles suspended from the shafts were used to align the tunnel.
		The struggle to control the Summit Tunnel fire involved 200 firefighters and many acts of heroism, including the re-entry into the tunnel by the train driver and two guards to retrieve the locomotive and three undamaged tankers, despite the presence of thick smoke and couplings that were now too hot to handle.
	manchesterhistory.net /rochdale/transport.html (1442 words)

	Ashland Daily Tidings :: Online Newspaper Edition - Your Community News Source Since 1876.
		Tunnel 13 was the site of the West's last great train robbery in 1923, adding immense historical significance to the tunnel.
		Fire and train officials said the blaze could have been started by transients or trespassers trying to build a fire inside the tunnel.
		Fire crews from four districts, including Ashland Fire and Rescue, were at the scene.
	www.dailytidings.com /2003/news1118/111803n1.shtml (977 words)

	TrainBoard.com: Tunnel Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Tunnel #13 is a little over 3,000 feet long and is the site of the last train robbery (at the west portal) in the 1930's, and is part of the old original California Oregon (1888); Centeral Pacific; Southern Pacific line, now operated under lease by the Centeral Oregon & Pacific (CORP).
		The fire continues to burn out of control as of tonight and is starting to collapse the roof because there is no way to get fire fighting equipment in and is too dangerous to send in firefighters.
		The contractor brought in from Washington to fight the fire was optimistic that not much damage had been done due to the low amount of heat that the fire generated.
	www.trainboard.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=56;t=000743 (2659 words)

	Mont Blanc - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mont Blanc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		In 1965 the longest road tunnel in the world (12 km/7.5 mi) was opened under the mountain, linking Chamonix to Courmayeur in Italy.
		An ice cap also covers the summit down to about 2,440 m/8,000 ft, and in places the ice is over 23 m/75 ft thick.
		The Mont Blanc Tunnel was closed in March 1999 after a lorry caught fire, killing 39 people.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mont+Blanc (533 words)

	RoguePundit: Tunnel Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		They are now shoring up the tunnel and laying new rail lines in some areas to replace those that twisted and buckled in the fire.
		In addition to the mountain of debris, the work was delayed by the fire which continued to smolder into February as well as heavy snow that fell this past winter, he said.
		The tunnel’s closure caused a delay in lumber and other freight deliveries that had to be rerouted between Weed, Calif., and Eugene.
	roguepundit.typepad.com /roguepundit/2004/05/tunnel_fire.html (1241 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| Tunnel inferno 'warning ignored'
		Rescuers said the tunnel turned into an inferno, melting the asphalt and causing tyres to explode and part of the concrete casing of the tunnel to collapse.
		Fire officials said Friday that all except two or three of the victims were found not in the tunnel's safety bunkers, but at the wheels of their cars - indicating they did not have time to escape before being overcome by the smoke and fumes.
		The tunnel fire is the second disaster to hit the French Chamonix region in recent weeks, after avalanches swept through the Alps.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/304946.stm (564 words)

	For Immediate Release: October 15, 2003
		The park was closed weekdays for a month from Sept. 22 to Oct. 16 to protect public safety during installation of lights in the spiral staircase of the Fire Control Building and in the tunnel, both located on the upper part of the summit trail.
		However, because the installation of the lights in the tunnel and spiral staircase required the closure of the park, the project was put on hold until the fall, when visitor use of the park decreases after the high visitation during the summer months.
		This engineering accomplishment involved the construction of the trail to the summit, a 225-foot long tunnel through one of the interior ridges of the crater, and the building of a 4-story camouflaged structure at the summit (761 feet above sea level).
	www.hawaii.gov /dlnr/chair/pio/HtmlNR/03-79.htm (504 words)

	The Media's Tunnel Vision - Middle East Quarterly - December 1996
		Though intensified in the tunnel crisis, the exhortations have persisted despite the Oslo accords' explicit prohibition of violent rhetoric.
		The causes of media hostility toward Israel's decision to open a tunnel entrance, toward its new Likud prime minister, and, by extension, toward the Israeli electorate that recently ousted a government compliant to Arab demands are complex and troubling.
		The fire has been regularly commemorated with attacks on Israelis; on Aug. 19, 1993, for example, nine Israeli soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon and a statement issued by the Party of God announced the assault was timed to mark the anniversary.
	www.meforum.org /article/426 (3660 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Vehicles found fused together in molten mass after tunnel inferno
		Mounting fears about tunnel safety were fanned by a second crash yesterday morning just outside the 6km-long St Bernhard tunnel, the closest alternative to the Gotthard, although it is not used by heavy goods vehicles.
		One, a 35km tunnel beneath the Loetschberg in Berne canton, is due to open in 2007, and the second, 56km long under the Gotthard pass, in 2012.
		The tunnel is also fitted with a state-of-the-art fire detection system and a ventilation system that allows air in the tunnel to be refreshed, and fumes evacuated, within 15 minutes of an accident.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,581224,00.html (1497 words)

	Fire Destroys Tunnel Mill
		It is a newspaper account of the fire that destroyed the Tunnel Mill on August 1, 1927.
		The Tunnel Mill was the last over-shot wheel to operate in Clark County.
		Work engineered the tunnel himself, manufacturing his blasting powder on the ground as he needed it, it is said.
	www.tunnelmill.org /Fire.aspx (238 words)

	Tunnel 13 - November 18, 2003
		The fire, likely started by transients or trespassers, burned enough old wooden joists to cause rock and debris to pile up to 8 feet in spots inside Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad’s Tunnel 13 near Interstate 5’s Siskiyou Summit, authorities said.
		Monday, the fire was burning in the creosote-soaked timbers about 65 feet from the tunnel’s north end, the site of the botched D’Autremont brothers’ train robbery of 1923.
		A team of firefighters from the Seattle firm of Shannon-Wilson, which has experience dealing with tunnel fires, was scheduled to be at the tunnel today, said Mark Wohlers, the railroad’s administrative affairs manager in Roseburg.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2003/1118/local/stories/02local.htm (520 words)

	Tour of the Alps 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		There is no view at the forested summit, so we stopped for pictures farther down, toward the Vesubie river where, in a few kilometers, a panorama opened with the walled village of la Bollene-Vesubie perched picturesquely on a knoll in the foreground amid the dry hills of olives, gorse, and golden grass.
		The summit was crowded with "century riders" who looked at us in the now familiar manner of "You do this for FUN?" These folks were signing in to get their completion badges, a string of stragglers still coming up the north side.
		Soon we were at the summit hotel and vista point, crossing the (one sided) Maloja summit (1817m) to roll along the Silser and Silvaplana Lakes and on to St Moritz past the Morizzaner Lake (1724m).
	www-math.science.unitn.it /Bike/Countries/Europe/Tour_Reports/Tour_of_the_Alps/2001 (13324 words)

	BBC News \| Europe \| Tunnel fire doused
		The fire destroyed 23 cars and lorries, and officials say there may be up to three more bodies among the wreckage.
		There are unconfirmed reports that sections of the tunnel wall in the immediate vicinity of the accident had collapsed due to the intense heat.
		The 6.4km (4 mile)Tauern tunnel is on one of the main motorways linking southern and northern Austria, and the accident has caused queues several kilometers long at both entrances to the tunnel.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/355940.stm (560 words)

	CNN - Grain elevator fire doesn't hinder search - June 12, 1998
		HAYSYILLE, Kansas (CNN) -- A fire broke out Friday morning at the giant DeBruce Grain elevator where rescuers are attempting to find a missing worker believed trapped in a tunnel beneath the facility following an explosion earlier in the week.
		Curtis Wilson, Sedgwick County deputy division fire chief, said the fire was not in a portion of the complex where searchers were working.
		There were no reports of injuries from the fire and no official word on its cause.
	www.cnn.com /US/9806/12/grain.fire.02/index.html (434 words)

	Tunnel - near-death experiences
		The dark tunnel is described in many ways, such as being like a cave, a well, an enclosure, a funnel, a vacuum, a void, a sewer, a valley, or a cylinder.
		Most of them were off to the sides of the tunnel, but one of them, that I seemed to float right over, looked oriental with a long grayish Fu Man Chu, sitting there in the middle of the tunnel with his hands clasped and his feet crossed...
		Despite her experience, Blackmore believes the tunnel is caused by oxygen starvation, which causes certain cells in the brain, inhibitory cells, to die first, the excitable ones taking longer.
	www.near-death.com /experiences/research16.html (9156 words)

	Colorado Software Summit 2002 – Mount Evans
		However, these facilities (and a Summit House) were destroyed in a fire several years ago; only their ruins remain.
		The road from Summit Lake to the top of Mount Evans is somewhat likely to be closed by mid-October, to give road crews an opportunity to work on it, while the road above Echo Lake closes with the first heavy snowfall, often late September, rarely later than mid-October.
		The view from the summit is rewarding, as on a clear day you can view a total area approximately six times the size of Switzerland, or a distance of about 200 miles (322 kilometers).
	www.softwaresummit.com /2002/mtevans.htm (836 words)

	CNN.com - Alpine tunnel tops summit agenda - January 29, 2001
		French officials have hinted the tunnel could be back in action by the end of the year.
		Busloads of people from mountain towns and villages, affected by the proposed tunnel, are expected to hold a demonstration outside the former royal palace in Turin where the talks are being held.
		Among other topics up for discussion are the future of the European Union after the December Nice summit on the reform of institutions ahead of expanding the 15-member group.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/italy/01/29/france.summit (587 words)

	The Seattle Times: Traffic: Motorists come to the rescue after bus catches fire on Snoqualmie Pass
		The State Patrol received a call from one of the passengers and then the driver of the bus called in an emergency, saying the bus was on fire.
		"Fire personnel and troopers responded to the scene," State Patrol spokesman Jeff Merrill said in a statement.
		All passengers were taken to the Summit Inn on Snoqualmie Pass until another Greyhound bus could pick them up.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/traffic/2003488969_webbusfire21.html (287 words)

	Al Aksa Tunnel Riots of 1996
		PA representatives and diplomats routinely confirm the Islamist allegations and insist that the opening of the Hashmonaean Tunnel last September, which was used by Arafat as an excuse for the fighting between the Palestinian "policemen" and the IDF, was actually a prototype for the new tunnels.
		In recent weeks, the claim has been further refined to include a time frame for the calamity: The Muslim world is now being told that the Jews are determined to celebrate Passover (second half of April 1997) in their new Temple, which means that the mosques will have to be destroyed beforehand.
		Reacting to reports of new tunnels beneath the Mosque, Sheikh Muhammed Hussein, Director-General of al Masjidul Aqsa, said that the Israelis were trying desperately to uncover alleged ancient Jewish sites, adding that all of their excavations to that effect have resulted in nothing.
	www.eretzyisroel.org /~jkatz/tunnel.html (2370 words)

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