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Nine Tonnes of Margarine — The Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire That Burned 53 Hours
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Nine Tonnes of Margarine — The Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire That Burned 53 Hours
Every story in here actually happened. New stories every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
Sources: https://www.senat.fr/rap/l98-519/l98-519.html; https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/303507.stm; https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/686441.stm; https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/25/montblanctunnel; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0379711200000084; https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32004L0054
Visual credits: - "Entrance of Mont-Blanc tunnel from le Brevent.jpg" by Tangopaso; Public domain https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance of Mont-Blanc tunnel from le Brevent.jpg; cropped, color-adjusted, and animated for video. - "Blanka tunnel open doors 2014 09.jpg" by Perituss; CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blanka tunnel open doors 2014 09.jpg; cropped, color-adjusted, and animated for video. - "Canadian Pacific intermodal refrigerated container - Whatcom County, WA.jpg" by Ewkada; CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian Pacific intermodal refrigerated container - Whatcom County, WA.jpg; cropped, color-adjusted, and animated for video. - "DOD Bubenečský tunel 2014, SOS B-22A.jpg" by ŠJů; CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DOD Bubenečský tunel 2014, SOS B-22A.jpg; cropped, color-adjusted, and animated for video. - "Charlie's Produce - Freightliner with refrigerated semi-trailer, I-90 Spokane, WA.jpg" by Ewkada; CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charlie's Produce - Freightliner with refrigerated semi-trailer, I-90 Spokane, WA.jpg; cropped, color-adjusted, and animated for video.
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Production disclosure: AI-generated narration; research and editorial review use multiple public sources.