Blue emergency lights instead of flickering candles ...
... for more than 80 police, fire services and rapid response personnel in Bautzen on 14th December 2013. The scenario for the exercise: in the west tangent tunnel in Bautzen, a van has been tail-ended by a car, resulting in a fire. The fire services are required to rescue injured persons and fight the fire. Together with the rapid response group and the police, the fire services from Bautzen, Kleinwelka and Stiebitz practiced a deployment involving a serious road traffic accident with a resulting fire.
... for more than 80 police, fire services and rapid response personnel in Bautzen on 14th December 2013. The scenario for the exercise: in the west tangent tunnel in Bautzen, a van has been tail-ended by a car, resulting in a fire. The fire services are required to rescue injured persons and fight the fire. Together with the rapid response group and the police, the fire services from Bautzen, Kleinwelka and Stiebitz practiced a deployment involving a serious road traffic accident with a resulting fire.
The exercise was a success, so that Jan Mücke, parliamentary secretary of state at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Planning, and Sven Morlock, Saxony’s Minister for Economics, Labor and Transport, could open the west tangent tunnel in Bautzen to traffic on 16th December 2013.
The building project was carried out by DEGES. The main purpose of the west tangent was to separate inter-regional traffic from the A 4 motorway in the direction of Löbau and Oppach and thus considerably reduce the through traffic burden in the city center. One notable aspect of the tangent is the 210 m long tunnel which had to be blasted out of granite using the open construction method. The reinforced concrete frame was constructed with added polypropylene fibers.
Further special aspects include the inclination of 3,8 % and the long trough systems and noise protection walls immediately adjacent to the tunnel, which restrict access to the tunnel and the possible escape routes from it.
KREBS+KIEFER’s tunnel safety department developed the fire services plans and the alarm and risk protection plan (RABT) for the tunnel. This plan defines the measures required of the various parties involved - the state road and traffic authority, the Bautzen district office, the city of Bautzen, the Bautzen fire services, the integrated emergency control center for east Saxony in Hoyerswerda, the Bautzen police and the police directorate in Görlitz - in the event of different types of incidents.
We hope that the tunnel operations will be smooth and accident-free!
