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Manual fire extinguishers

Figure1: Manual fire extinguishers in an emergency station

Figure1: Manual fire extinguishers in an emergency station

Manual fire extinguishers are provided at regular intervals within road tunnels to allow the motorists and operating personnel to fight a modest size fire within the tunnel prior to the arrival of the fire services (see Section 6.3.2 "Fire extinguishers" of report 05.05.B 1999).

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