People inside the 50-kilometer (30-mile) tunnel, known as the Chunnel, were evacuated through a service tunnel that runs between the two train-carrying tunnels, Eurotunnel officials said. Passenger and freight trains on the key route linking Britain to mainland Europe have been canceled until Friday at the earliest.Rico says they're going to lose one one of these days, and kill a lot of people...
A spokesman for French police in Arras added that the fire is thought to have begun on a lorry which overturned.
In November 1996, there was a fire on a freight service that burned for several hours and caused damage totaling millions of euros.
11 September 2008
Some governments never learn
CNN has the story of yet another fire (in a freight train, fortunately) in the Chunnel:
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