Intervention in the case of fires in road tunnels (ASTRA2002/005)
Overview
Background & policy context:
Fires of a large extent in tunnels are extraordinary events causing immense damage. The intervention and especially its planning require not only special technical knowledge of protection against fire, but also of construction and operating tunnels. The research project contains the preparation of technical bases for command staff, fire brigades, police services and rescue teams. The guideline will be used as basis for planning interventions and instructing staff, especially of fire brigades.
Objectives:
Create guideline concerning fire-fighting in tunnels.
- Basis for the processing and deployment of planning and training.
- Basis for communication between the operator and the fire brigade at an early planning phase.
The goal of this guide is to provide bases for emergency response planning and the training of emergency services.
Methodology:
- An analysis of the event phases.
- A fire brigade-related classification of the event scenarios.
- Insights into the problem of gas-fueled cars in tunnels.
- Investigation of truck fires with LPG cylinders.
- An analysis of gasoline release in tunnels.
- Insights to the fire influence on the operation of the fire ventilation and the use of high-performance ventilators.
- Requirements for fire access.
- Description of the relationship between the phases of the event and the fire brigade security.
- Smoke and temperature development taking into account different ventilation systems.
- An overview of the tunnel radio systems.
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