In Case of Emergency "Would Have Been Dead Long Ago: Big Exercise to ICE Fire Ends in Disaster
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A burning ICE stands in the middle of a tunnel. This emergency was recently rehearsed by emergency personnel. However, the exercise was far from smooth.
During an exercise in a railway tunnel in Thuringia, forces train the emergency case on the weekend. But everything goes wrong with a simulated ICE fire: the fire brigade is late, the communication runs partly via fax. The interior minister is served.
Severely delayed reporting chains and doors that could not be opened: A rescue exercise with an ICE in a tunnel in Thuringia went thoroughly wrong. The responsible people give themselves to shreds.
For two years the big exercise was planned, during the "Ernstfall" in the presence of the Minister of the Interior the transfer of information was delayed in several places for a long time
In Thuringia an ICE fire was simulated in a tunnel, 30 passengers were to be rescued. The forces arrived much too late. Observers were stunned.
A major exercise in the Thuringian Railway Tunnel was to prepare rescue forces for the emergency. The result was alarming.
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