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
Salang Tunnel fire and 2,000 Afghan soldiers and civilians may have died. Afghan insurgents said they did not have any role in the explosion in the tunnel. Prior to this, on 23 February 1980, a similar incident killed 16 Soviet soldiers in the Salang tunnel. Salang Tunnel fire The Salang tunnel fire occurred on 3 November 1982 in Afghanistan's Salang tunnel during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Details are uncertain, but the incident may have been the deadliest known road accident, and one of the deadliest fires of modern times. The Salang tunnel, which opened the famous Salang Pass (or Kotal-e Salang) to