Re: AP lusers



On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:57:32 -0400,
Graham Reed <greed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Davide Bianchi <davideyeahsure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Hummm... Amuse me, are there _anywhere_ tunnels or trains *with*
fire-suppression systems? Anywhere? I'm not talking only about railroads
tunnels of course, I seems to remember a fscking big fire in the
Gottardo's Tunnel that resulted in 20 or so death.

According to Pickyweedia, they put a fire station with 2 engines in
the middle of the Mont Blanc tunnel after the 1999 fire.

No word on suppression systems, or even hydrant connections or in-wall
fire hose reels or equivelent.

Come to think of it, I have seen fire cabinets with hoses like you get
in commercial buildings in some tunnel. But which was it....

Certainly in the Windsor-Detroit tunnel, IIRC. That's the only tunnel
I've been in in the past mumblety years, so I don't think I remember
any other tunnel instead.

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