– It is very difficult to know how much water is in the tunnel, because the heat affects måleappratene, says construction manager Vidar Solheim NPRA to BT.
He says that they are trying to pump out water from tunnel.
The roof can down
– It is very hot in the tunnel. It makes concrete cracks and this down, making it dangerous to remain in the tunnel now, says Margot Åsebø, Acting Deputy Director vegavdeling Sogn og Fjordane to Bergens Tidende.
Åsebø state that they know surely that the tunnel has received extensive damage.
– It will be closed for weeks, perhaps months ahead , she says.
Earlier today notified police on Twitter that emergency crews had to come out of the tunnel because it turns into water and one feared that it could collapse .
– There is no reason to believe that the tunnel will collapse. We currently do not completely control how much water is inside the tunnel and pumps are a bit unstable. Currently works pumps at half capacity, says Åsebø to BT at 14.40.
Do not know if it burns
Skate Straum tunnel is now blocked off at both ends. The fire department has not been able to drive something extinguish work on the tunnel, and know not whether it still burns in the tanker.
– There is still smoke coming out, so most likely it burns still, says Trond Hatlenes to BT at 15.30.
Do not list
No one had an overview of how many cars were in the tunnel when a petrol tanker exploded in the submarine Skate Straum tunnel in Bremanger, Sogn og Fjordane in half past ten o’clock Wednesday.
Therefore, smoke divers from the Fire Department sent into the tunnel to see if they could find more people.
Now they have been pulled out of the area, since the police fearing that the tunnel could collapse.
Tank car that has caused tunnel inferno had a trailer that was filled with 16,500 liters of gasoline. The loosened and twisted in the rock wall.
Six people have been sent to Forde sentralsjukehus because they have inhaled smoke. Health Forde says that all are slightly injured.
The police reported that a total of 13 people came out of the tunnel on the south side. Nine people have been evacuated to the north, from the port and houses nearby.
Police writes on twitter that there is no reason to believe that there are people left inside the tunnel.
– So hanger explode
The local fire department was notified in time 10:27 of the driver, Tore Myrestrand.
– I saw the trailer explode while I raised the alarm, he says to Firda.
The driver driving fuel for Mørebunkers AS. He was heading toward Rugsund from the deepest part of the tunnel, then drawbar tired.
– The brakes should turn into when this happens, but it went so quickly that trailers walked in the rock wall. I jumped out of the car and tore emergency, to alert and get blocked tunnel. Then narrow first tank space in the trailer. Thus I jumped into the car and drove, and fekk warning of this sort other cars that were heading into the tunnel, he said.
Myrestrand says he does not know what the situation was on the other side of the tunnel, but that he acted as he had learned:
– Rescue and Recovery, says the driver.
300 meters inside the tunnel
The trailer came loose about 300 meters inside the tunnel. The tunnel is 1.9 km long and it goes 91 meters below sea level at its deepest.
Police asked to start media not contact them because it created problems for communications (see tweet).
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“So fierce smoke”
– We were driving and would enter the tunnel, but so fierce smoke and was stopped by a car that blocked the road. Inside the tunnel so we tanker. Then we heard two explosions, says Kjell Idar Restad to BT.
– The smoke was fierce and we turned, he added.
Skate Straum tunnel is located on county road 616. The tunnel runs under Skate maelstrom between Hamna on Rugsundo and club at Bremangerlandet.
The tunnel was opened in 2002. It was been no major accidents in the tunnel, but it was temporarily closed in April 2007 after a smaller rockfall.
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