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I had drawn on the contemporaneous newspaper accounts in Val dAosta and Chamonix for my story. He tells me, That legend had been woven by the Italian media before anyone knew exactly what had really happened. Through them, I felt I got to know a subject who was so self-effacing that his closest friends could barely even find a snapshot of him. The resulting fire burned for 52 hours and ended 41 lives. Finding any mistake in a published story is deflating. Eleven bodies had been accounted for by yesterday afternoon but now up to 30 more people are feared missing. At least 35 people died in the 1,800-degree inferno that erupted in the Mont Blanc tunnel linking France and Italy . Of course now, Im embarrassed that it took me 14 years to correct the record. ), Antoine Chandellier is a French journalist who has reported on the Haute Savoie region for decades. The Italians were assisted by a French motorcycle security guard named Patrick Devouassoux, who happened to be on the Italian side when the fire broke out. We learned from Mont Blanc that people dont die from the fire they die from the fumes and smoke, Mr. Hodgkins said. Pierlucio Tinazzi (Italian pronunciation:[pjrluto tinattsi]; 27 December 1962 24 March 1999) was an Italian security guard who died while trying to rescue victims of the 1999 Mont Blanc tunnel fire. Thirty-nine people were killed. On 24th March, 1999, the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire occurred, with Tinazzi riding into the tunnel in an attempt to save lives on the French side. It is one of the longest vehicular . Pierlucio Tinazzi (lost radio communication from Mont Blanc Tunnel fire Otherwise it was conventionally driven from two headings, the Italian and French crews beginning work in 1958 and 1959, respectively, and meeting in August 1962. He was Italian, but as it happened, he entered the tunnel from the French side. Spadino might have seen something, or heard something from one of the drivers exiting the tunnel, that made him suspect that a truck was in trouble. In the aftermath, major changes were made to the tunnel to improve its safety. Then on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, this year, I was commissioned to write a feature for The New York Times, looking back on the fire as the worlds most closely examined road disaster. The Italian government presented his family with the Medaglia doro al valor civile, a heavy, beautiful medal that is one of the countrys highest honors for civilian bravery. Mont Blanc Tunnel (Chamonix-Mont-Blanc/Courmayeur, 1965) - Structurae Le tunnel des Tauern a t ouvert en 1975, celui du St. Gothard en 1980. In 1953, France and Italy agreed to jointly build and operate a motor-vehicle tunnel between Chamonix-Mont Blanc in France and Courmayeur in Italy. Theyd already made several annual pilgrimages to the tunnel in his honor. In the United States, the National Fire Protection Association publishes a document with a dry title but life-or-death consequences: NFPA 502: Standard for Road Tunnels, Bridges and Other Limited Access Highways.. The Mont Blanc Tunnel is not like any other road tunnel: at 11.6 kilometers long, it was the world's longest road tunnel when it opened for traffic on July 19, 1965. Their bodies were found several hundred metres from the site of the crash, just beyond the halfway point between the French and Italian tunnel mouths. [1] A commemorative plaque at the Italian entrance honours his sacrifice. I should have questioned how Tinazzi managed to operate in the French zone, when fully kitted firemen could not.

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