Channel Tunnel fire may refer to one of three fires which have occurred in the Channel Tunnel since its opening in 1994. All were caused by lorries carried on the heavy goods vehicle trains.
- Channel Tunnel: Fires, fires on 21 August 2006 and 29 November 2012 that closed for the tunnel for short periods.
- 1996 Channel Tunnel fire, a fire which burned for over seven hours on 18 November 1996.
- 2008 Channel Tunnel fire, a fire which burned for sixteen hours on 11 September 2008.
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“Children belong in families, which, ideally, serve as a sanctuary and a cushion from the world at large. Parents belong to society and are a part of that greater world. Sometimes parents are a channel to the larger society, sometimes they are a shield from it. Ideally they act as filters, guiding their children and teaching them to avoid the tempting trash.”
—Louise Hart (20th century)
“It is the light
At the end of the tunnel as it might be seen
By him looking out somberly at the shower,
The picture of hope a dying man might turn away from,
Realizing that hope is something else, something concrete
You can’t have.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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