Implications of Eurotunnel fire
Connection United Kingdom Dover and Calais region of France Eurotunnel (Eurotunnel), also known as Anglo-French Channel Tunnel (TheChannelTunnel), it opened to fill the shortage in the European railway network in a ring, greatly facilitates travel between major cities in Europe. The project is also making "a dream 200 years of Channel Change thoroughfare," can be said of the 20th century one of the greatest civil engineering projects, while the complexity of the project, using Technology The nature, involving a wide area of the tunnel in the world to occupy an important position in architectural history.
Eurotunnel 51km from the three long parallel tunnel, with a total length of 153km, of which the length of the Cross Harbour Tunnel in paragraph 3 × 38km, is the world's longest underwater tunnel. The tunnel actually consists of three different tunnels, two for freight and passenger services, one-way rail tunnels and a central service tunnel. Running tunnel in Europe by the British, France and Belgium on a joint venture railway authorities 'Eurostar' (Eurostar) train, the cars speed up to 300km / h. Eurotunnel has also designed a range of road vehicles transporting the train, saying 'Le Xie drag' ('LeShuttle'). Various sizes Car Can weather through the English Channel, so that the European road network is also connected by one.
1996 22 points on Nov. 18 about the evening, an operation with 29 trucks heading for Britain's high-speed trains in Europe, the French section of the tunnel 19 kilometers on the way, one car at the end of the car caught fire which spread quickly to other vehicles until after the locomotive. 20 minutes after the fire broke out, hundreds of firefighters marched on-site emergency fire, ambulance personnel quickly evacuated the three Maintenance Division and 31 passengers. As Ventilation Poor conditions, including varying degrees of poisoning 8 was taken to hospital, but no life. After a night of emergency rescue, fire fighting until 7 am the next day. During the fire Accident A total of six fire trucks, 11 trucks and locomotives that have been burned. Eurotunnel the fire occurred, resulting in exchanges between Paris and London were forced to interrupted high-speed train. Eurotunnel chairman Ponsort Law party immediately before that, the Channel Tunnel back to normal operations at least 3 weeks time.
The Eurotunnel has been operating since the summer of 1994, the first serious infestation, on the Franco-British joint venture in Europe, the unit is simply a nightmare, but also a alarm. Later, the local fire department after careful investigation unit in Europe a set of recommendations related to the rectification of the program. Rectification of the proposed program in the finished translation, summarized as follows several aspects of tunnel construction for our transport management and fire departments for reference:
A Fire Facilities Management 1, is responsible for the tunnel construction and management of the relevant units (hereinafter referred to as "relevant agencies") must be installed in the tunnel for a review of automatic fire detection system, and remove those who can not work properly Alarm To ensure that when an emergency occurs the first time in the command center to alert the railway; in order to ensure the accuracy of the fire alarm, the unit must be in accordance with the relevant standards of fire Detector To check out updates about the product, and the new detectors to be installed in the actual work Environment After passing through the test in order to put into use; to ensure the fire alarm in a timely manner, relevant units must fire alarm on the vehicle alarm system for testing the response rate and ensure that systems meet the relevant standards.
2, the relevant units and emergency departments to cooperate, to be alert to emerging priority of emergency relief and regulatory inspections to ensure that the accident first time, effective joint relief operations launched in time .
3, the unit must be all kinds of trains and locomotives of the sealing performance of a thorough inspection to ensure a similar incident occurs, not burning gas can not enter the compartment. All new vehicles put into use to meet the smoke standards for.
Second, infrastructure management
1, the unit must ensure that the tunnel automatic doors have good air tightness; in case of emergency, the remote control to immediately shut down under the control of automatic doors, to meet the requirements of the train passed; relevant units must be installed in the automatic defective door components such as the existence of the door closer timely maintenance to ensure that in emergency situations to play its due role.
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