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by **hidepenny** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:34 am

FIRE is reported to be spreading inside Melbourne's Burnley tunnel after a four-vehicle collision this morning.

The tunnel is being evacuated and there are no reports of injuries yet.

The fire is understood to be in one of the tunnel substations.

Between 10 and 12 fire trucks are at the scene.

by **Duane** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:44 am

3 cars, 4 trucks + 1 substation = alot of smoke and 3 people dead. (so i hear)

by **Smitty** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:02 am

...not good
more here-
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/ ... 35500.html

by **mfzx6r** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:20 pm

Saw it on the news

Not very good 3 dead I do believe

by **hidepenny** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:18 pm

one guy at work was telling me about the black smoke and next thing i did was taking pics!

and saw fire trucks and ambu going everywhere

by **mick_dundee** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:19 am

Sorry to hear of the deaths, I friggin hate that tunnel, particulalry on a bike, can't breathe... suggested once to Citylink the emissions in the tunnel are disgusting and they come back wth EPA readings a the top of the smoke stack... and advise me they are WELL below the standard...

Gonna do wonders for traffic flow in Melb too.

by **Lucas** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:38 am

mick_dundee wrote:Sorry to hear of the deaths, I friggin hate that tunnel, particulalry on a bike, can't breathe... suggested once to Citylink the emissions in the tunnel are disgusting and they come back wth EPA readings a the top of the smoke stack... and advise me they are WELL below the standard...

Gonna do wonders for traffic flow in Melb too.

Mick,
levels are down at the smoke stacks because they dont turn on the extraction fans ........ they just it flow out the end of the tunnel cause there are no sensors there

yes bad to see there were deaths though

by **hidepenny** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:39 pm

the time we saw the smoke and the time the first fire truck we saw coming out from the flinder st was like 20 mins or something and it had a hard time getting to the tunnel thru all the busy traffic at that time of the day

and before this happened everyone thought the red tower is an apartment building :shock:

by **mrmina** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:25 pm

farken traffic was farked

by **ttc** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:45 pm

One of the people that Died was a classmate of mine
RIP Damien

by **blackninja** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:53 pm

sorry to hear that tanya it was just lucky more didnt die

by **Neka79** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:31 pm

yea that was a tragedy and a half wasnt it!!

sorry to hear Tan, hope ur ok...

have they finished investigatin yet?? do they kno wot went wrong??

by **smek** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:08 am

truck blew a tyre...

investigation in progress. solution will be to drop the speed limit to 60...

by **hidepenny** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:49 am

solution will be to drop the speed limit to 60...

what!? it seems like this is the only solution they know!!!

by **mick_dundee** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:12 pm

You might be right Nikos but I doubt it frankly... given that people are paying to use said tunnel I reckon of they drop the speed limit they'll go away in droves, Princes Hwy after all is either 70 or 80 and is the alternative route that everyone is using currently anyway...

Personally speaking, could care less, never done the tunnel in my own car and be very rare occassion I wanna do it on the bike again, can't hold my breath long enough.

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