Brunost tonnes of brunost caught fire in the long Bratli tunnel in Tysfjord. The temperature increased so much that the Brunost caught fire, the fats and sugars in the cheese fuelling the blaze, making firefighters unable to approach it until four days later, when most of it had burned out. The tunnel was severely damaged, and was closed for repair for several months afterwards. The accident was widely publicized in international media, and was dubbed "the goat cheese fire". It was likened to the 1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel fire, when a truck carrying margarine and flour caught fire. Brunost Brunost ("brown
Norwegian A-class submarine week following the German invasion of Norway, one in combat and the other two through scuttling. Norwegian A-class submarine The A-class submarines were a class of three vessels of German design built by the Krupp Germania naval shipyard in Kiel, Germany from 1913 to 1914 and deployed by the Royal Norwegian Navy. The Norwegian government purchased four submarines that were almost completed in 1913 and received three of these before World War I. The fourth, "A-5", was seized by German authorities at the outbreak of war and commissioned as . It was used for coastal protection and from 1916 as