Caldecott Tunnel fire
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title:
Caldecott Tunnel fire
text:
The Caldecott Tunnel fire killed seven people in the third (then-northernmost) bore of the Caldecott Tunnel, on State Route 24 between Oakland and Orinda in the U.S. state of California, just after midnight on 7 April 1982. It is one of the few major tunnel fires involving a cargo normally considered to be highly flammable, namely gasoline. At the time of the fire, the Caldecott tunnel complex consisted of three bores side-by-side, each 0.7 mi long (1.1 km). The then-northernmost bore, where the
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1982 wildfire in California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Tunnel_fire
date created:
2005-01-12T22:31:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T04:40:33Z
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