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39 Dead and 53 Hours of Fire: in March 1999, in the Mont-Blanc Tunnel, Everything Started From a Truck Loaded with a Product Found in All the Refrigerators

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A mountain tunnel can turn into an oven in the space of a few minutes, because of a product that everyone keeps at home without ever wary of. On March 1999, a truck loaded with margarine ignited the Mont Blanc tunnel. Thirty-nine people left their lives there, trapped by the [...]
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A mountain tunnel can turn into an oven in the space of a few minutes, because of a product that everyone keeps at home without ever wary of. On March 1999, a truck loaded with margarine ignited the Mont Blanc tunnel. Thirty-nine people left their lives there, trapped by the [...]

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SciencePost broke the news on Monday, November 2, 2026.
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