Eurotunnel blaze - wreck towed out

[Steve B]

Video of burnt out euro tunnel freight train
the wreck of the burned out train which caught fire recently has been pulled out into the fresh air


Bit of a mess

 

[macjet]

What's a Laurie?

 

[wheeler1963]

macjet, a lorrie is a semi truck to us in the states.

 

[UP2CSX]

It looks like it must have been quite a hot fire to have melted those vehicles. I was surprised to hear the engineer say the the recommendations from the 1996 tunnel fire report haven't yet been implemented. Wel, I guess not surprised since engineer's recommendations are always ignored, but this is the second fire that is going to cost a huge amount of money to repair. Until they start using enclosed vehicle carriers with their own foam fire supression system, this is going to happen over and over again and people wil die.

 

[macjet]

macjet, a lorrie is a semi truck to us in the states.

Thanks!


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[grande man]

Glad no one was hurt.

 

[maczimb]

Lorry

Macjet.
The correct spelling is LORRY.
A lorry is not necessarily a SEMI, it is usually anything bigger than what we would call a pickup truck.
I grew up in a country that used lorries. Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
Mac.

 

[AndrewC]

It looks like it must have been quite a hot fire to have melted those vehicles. I was surprised to hear the engineer say the the recommendations from the 1996 tunnel fire report haven't yet been implemented. Wel, I guess not surprised since engineer's recommendations are always ignored, but this is the second fire that is going to cost a huge amount of money to repair. Until they start using enclosed vehicle carriers with their own foam fire supression system, this is going to happen over and over again and people wil die.

Sadly the biggest problem is the condition of many of the vehicles using the shuttle. The safety standards and maintanence of some commercial vehicles leaves a lot to be desired. This is especially true of many Eastern European countries.