Editing Kaprun disaster (section)

==Fire==
On 11 November 2000 shortly after 9:00&nbsp;am, 161 passengers and one conductor boarded the funicular train for the slopes. The train unexpectedly halted {{convert|600|m}} into the tunnel.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-67682693.html|title=KATASTROPHEN: Freispruch für Gott|last1=Dahlkamp|first1=Jürgen|last2=Ludwig|first2=Udo|date=9 November 2011|website=www.spiegel.de|publisher=SPIEGEL-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co|pages=46–51|language=de|issn=0038-7452|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212183337/http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-67682693.html|archive-date=12 December 2009|url-status=live|access-date=17 August 2017|edition=49/2009}}</ref> Some minutes later the conductor reported a fire to the control centre, and failed in an attempt to open the hydraulically operated doors. The conductor then lost contact with the control centre because the fire had burned through a 16kV power cable running alongside the track, causing a power blackout throughout the ski resort.

The passengers attempted to break the shatter-resistant [[acrylic glass|acrylic]] windows. Twelve people from the rear of the train broke a window with a ski pole and, advised by an escapee who had been a volunteer fire fighter, escaped downwards past the fire and below the smoke.

Many of the trapped occupants lost consciousness due to toxic fumes. Eventually the conductor managed to unlock the doors, allowing them to be manually forced open. The conscious passengers fled up the tunnel away from the fire. The tunnel acted as a [[blast furnace]], sucking oxygen in from below and sending poisonous fumes, heat and the fire itself upwards. The conductor and all the passengers ascending on foot died by [[asphyxiation]] and were burned.

The conductor and the sole passenger on the second train, which was descending in the same tunnel above the burning train, also died of smoke inhalation. The smoke rose into the Alpincenter {{convert|2500|m|abbr=on}} above. Two fleeing workers in the Alpincenter alerted employees and customers and escaped via an emergency exit. They left the exit doors open, which contributed to the [[chimney effect]]. All except four people escaped the centre as it filled with smoke. Firefighters reached the centre and revived one of the four; the other three were asphyxiated.<ref name=":0" />