This essential requirement is satisfied by the functional and technical specifications in sections 4.2.5.3 Fire protection for freight trains, 4.2.5.4 Fire barriers for passenger rolling stock 4.2.5.5 Additional measures for running capability of passenger rolling stock with a fire on board, 4.2.5.6 On-board fire detectors.

Additional measures for running capability of passenger rolling stock with a fire on board:

Prolonged stop (an unplanned stop in a tunnel, without a fire on board, for longer than 10 minutes) is not, by itself, a threat to passengers and staff.

Additional measures for running capability of passenger rolling stock with a fire on board

14. Deplores the fact that so many of these forest fires appear to have been started by acts of arson, and is particularly concerned that criminal acts of this kind are increasingly to blame for forest fires in Europe; calls on the Member States, therefore, to strengthen and make use of penal sanctions for criminal acts that damage the environment and, in particular, for those causing forest fires, and believes that prompt and effective investigations in order to establish liability, followed by proportionate punishment, would discourage negligent and deliberate behaviour;

This week there has been a Mediterranean forest fire on the border between France and Italy, a fire in the Ostia pine forest, near Rome, a fire in the Region of Valencia, where I live, and furthermore there has been one death, of a farmer who was trying to put out one of the numerous fires which have occurred this week as a result of drought and heat.