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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => General Interest => Topic started by: Alasdair Munro on October 21, 2007, 08:02:26 PM
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Does anyone know of the whereabouts of any infomation on a tunnel rescue attended by LFB some years ago which featured in some decision making training materials?
I recollect that it may have been during construction of the M11 to Blackwall Tunnel link and was some form of pipejacked drainage tunnel
Any ideas?
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The job you refer to has become know as the Colville Road (or Collville Road) job, in east London easily 10 years ago.
Following a fire, a number of tunnel construction workers were trapped in a location so remote from the access point that crews had to make up their own BA procedure to reach them as the duration of their sets was not up to the job.
I can't remember all the details, but I recall that numerous dodgy decisions were made and the BA crews at one point needed to almost swim in a sea of silt/slurry to reach the victim(s) Most importantly, all survived as they were very very lucky.
I have no knowledge of the availability of any training material but a comprehensive package was supplied by the LFB to all stations after the incident and it may be possible that some packages stil exist at the back of station libraries or via LFB HQ.
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Give Norfolk FRS a call. They had a plan in place maybe 8-10 years ago when a tunnel was constructed off Cromer. They had pressurised systems to go through.
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Try Oxfordshire FRS Training Centre, have recently done a course which included abit on this incident