Name: What Went Wrong: Countdown to Catastrophe: The Blaze in the Mont Blanc Tunnel
Uploaded: 2021-06-16T17:00:00-07:00
Duration: 44 min 45 s
Description: A devastating fire in 1999 that killed 39 people inside the tunnel that runs under Mont Blanc, between Italy's Valle d'Aosta and France's Chamonix.

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