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#1
16th June 2011, 11:48
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Train fire in norway brings new solutions in firefighting
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/hordaland/1.7675823 (Norweigan but with pictures)
Short: On Bergensbanen (Oslo-Bergen) in Norway a fire started in a snow gallery. For an unknown reason (not stated in the article) a train has stopped in the snow gallery and is now on fire too. 250 passengers is evacuated and stands in the middle of nowhere in 8 degrees celsius. There are no road to the site so a fire truck has been loaded onto a rail car, and water has been filled to a special tank car with water cannons and headed for the train fire. More fire crew is on the way by helicopter. No person is reported injured and the train service is cancelled. It seems like the water tank and the car they loaded the fire truck on are specially made for this purpose. But, why not? There aren't many roads on the fell (in the mountains)
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16th June 2011, 13:39
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Update:
It is two electric motor units (class 73) that is stuck inside. The reason the train was stopped there was because the electric power lines was damaged by the ongoing fire and the power was cut.
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16th June 2011, 20:17
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Passengers were evacuated to the small tourist village nearby.
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16th June 2011, 21:39
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Glad no one was hurt, looked nasty!
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