Seconds From Disaster

Season 1 • Episode 2: Tunnel Inferno • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 2: Tunnel Inferno

October 10, 2005 • 45 min

Mont Blanc is one of the highest mountains in Europe, with a seven-mile long tunnel connecting France and Italy through the Alps. One March day in 1999, a Belgian Truck carrying flour and margarine catches fire in the tunnel, creating a blaze which burns for 53 hours, killing 39 people. A team of investigators set out to prove what caused such a terrible fire, and why all tunnels could be merely Seconds from Disaster

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