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09-11-2008, 03:55 PM
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PARIS — A fire broke out Thursday on a train shuttling trucks under the English Channel between England and France, injuring six people and suspending traffic in the undersea tunnel, officials said.
Firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze after it broke out about seven miles from the French side, said a spokesman for Eurotunnel, the company that operates the tunnel.
The shuttle train was carrying 32 people when the fire broke out just before 4 p.m. (1400 GMT), the spokesman said. Most were truck drivers accompanying their vehicles, and all were evacuated safely, he said.
The fire erupted on a single truck carried by the train, and traffic in the 30-mile tunnel will remain suspended until Friday, France's rail operator SNCF said. The cause of the fire had not been determined.
Eurostar said none of its trains were in the tunnel and its services had been canceled for the rest of Thursday.
The regional administration office in Calais, which is overseeing the response to the fire, said six people were injured in the fire.
Several people were sent to nearby hospitals for treatment, an office spokesman said, but he couldn't say whether they had suffered from smoke inhalation or other problems. Their conditions were not immediately available.
The Eurotunnel and regional administration officials were not authorized to be publicly named.
French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie was traveling to the scene, her office said.
Fires have rarely broken out in the past in the tunnel, which opened for commercial traffic in 1994.
In August 2006, the tunnel was closed for several hours after a fire broke out on a truck loaded onto a freight train. No one was hurt.
A larger fire broke out aboard a train carrying heavy good vehicles through in the tunnel on Nov. 18, 1996. No one was killed but several people were injured and a large stretch of the tunnel was damaged. The fire led to new safety precautions for trains using the tunnel.
source: FoxNews
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09-11-2008, 03:57 PM
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Country:  | That's not good......glad to hear only 6 injuries | |
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09-11-2008, 04:14 PM
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Country: | Yeah, that fire back in 1996 tought them something.
Doubt it's 9/11 related, more like random chance. | |
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09-11-2008, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by timshatz  Yeah, that fire back in 1996 tought them something.
Doubt it's 9/11 related, more like random chance. | Agreed | |
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09-11-2008, 04:28 PM
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Country:  | Certainly isn't 9/11 related (surely they would of targeted a passenger train not a goods train). They did learn a lot after 1996, glad no-one was hurt though.
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09-11-2008, 05:54 PM
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Country: | If it had been 9/11 related-copycat, there would have been about 3,000+ casualties and the tunnel would have collapsed. | |
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09-11-2008, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Bluehawk If it had been 9/11 related-copycat, there would have been about 3,000+ casualties and the tunnel would have collapsed. | That's a leap.
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09-11-2008, 11:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt308 That's a leap. | THE "leap" was in comparing the tunnel fire with 9/11...
If v2 was suggesting, by his title of the thread, that the tunnel fire MAY involve an important terrorist act similar to 9/11, then the evidence thusfar does not support anything remotely resembling 9/11.
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09-12-2008, 03:17 AM
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Country:  | This was a random event that just happened to be on that specific date. I think it would had been a lot more destructive were it a terrorist attack. | |
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09-12-2008, 03:21 AM
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Country:  | sad, sad. The Eurotunnel company has just made it out of constant operational losses every month, and now such a hit again.. | |
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09-12-2008, 04:13 AM
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Country:  | This was a random event that just happened to be on that specific date. I think it would had been a lot more destructive were it a terrorist attack.
Yeah i agree with you Milos
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09-12-2008, 06:34 AM
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Country: | Not even close to being sensational enough for terrorists. While attacks on infrastructure like transportation have been planned before, a shuttle train carrying a total of 32 people is not much of a target for a terrorist that wants big headlines. I didn't hear a word about it on the radio news I listen to on the way home from work last night.
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