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2006 Rome Metro Crash
On 17 October 2006 at 9:37am local time (07:37 UTC), one Rome Metro train ploughed into another train as it unloaded passengers at the Vittorio Emanuele underground station in the city centre, killing a 30-year-old Italian woman, named Alessandra Lisi, and injuring about 145 others, of which a dozen were reported to be in life-threatening conditions. The whole Line A was immediately shut down and the area above the station, the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, was cordoned off by police as rescue workers erected a field hospital, where dozens of people were treated. The injured were gradually transported to various Rome hospitals for further treatment, with the Complesso Ospedaliero San Giovanni - Addolorata, being the nearest, receiving most of them. While no official cause of the accident has been released, officials have excluded terrorism as a cause for the incident. Several passengers have reported that the driver of the moving train failed to stop at a red signal and that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome Metro
The Rome Metro ( it, Metropolitana di Roma) is a rapid transit system that operates in Rome, Italy. It started operation in 1955, making it the oldest in the country. The Metro comprises three lines – A (orange), B (blue) and C (green) – which operate on of route, serving 73 stations.Counting Termini, the interchange station between Lines A and B, and San Giovanni, the interchange station between Lines A and C, only once. The original lines in the system, lines A and B, form an X shape with the lines intersecting at '' Termini'' station, the main train station in Rome. Line B splits at the ''Bologna'' station into two branches. The third line opened in 2014 and connects to the rest of the system through an interchange with Line A at '' San Giovanni''. Rome's local transport provider, ATAC, operates the Metro and several other rail services: the Roma–Giardinetti line and the Roma–Nord line. The Roma–Lido, which connects Rome to Ostia, on the sea, used to be ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vittorio Emanuele (Rome Metro)
Vittorio Emanuele is a station on Line A of the Rome Metro. The station was inaugurated in 1980 and is sited underground, beneath Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, which gives it its name, in the Esquilino rione. The atrium of the station houses several mosaics from the Artemetro Roma Prize. The mosaics on display are by Nicola Carrino and Giulia Napoleone. On 17 October 2006 there was a train crash in this station, killing one and injuring over 200 people. Located nearby * Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II *Auditorium of Maecenas *Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore *Teatro Ambra Jovinelli *Temple of Minerva Medica (nymphaeum) *Santa Croce in Gerusalemme *Porta Maggiore and the underground basilica of Porta Maggiore *Tomb of Eurysaces the Baker *Basilica di Santa Prassede * Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale *Capolinea Roma-Pantano *Via Gioberti *Via Merulana *Mercato Vittorio External links The station on theATAC ATAC, or Atac, may refer to: * Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Code Red (medical)
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital. Such codes are sometimes posted on placards throughout the hospital or are printed on employee identification badges for ready reference. Hospital emergency codes have varied widely by location, even between hospitals in the same community. Confusion over these codes has led to the proposal for and sometimes adoption of standardized codes. In many American, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian hospitals, for example "code blue" indicates a patient has entered cardiac arrest, while "code red" indicates that a fire has broken out somewhere in the hospital facility. In order for a code call to be useful in activating the response of specific hospital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line A (Rome Metro)
Line A ( it, Linea A) of the Rome Metro runs across the city from the north-west terminus of Battistini to the south-east terminus at Anagnina. It intersects with Line B at Termini and with Line C at San Giovanni. The line is marked orange on metro maps. Normally very crowded, Line A is estimated to transport nearly half a million people daily. History In 1959, approval was granted for the construction of a second metropolitan railway line in Rome, from the area of Osteria del Curato to Prati, passing through the city centre and intersecting with the existing line (inaugurated in 1955) at Termini Station. Work began in 1964 in the Tuscolana area and immediately ran into unexpected delays and difficulties, an example of which was the disruption caused to traffic in the south-east of Rome by the cut and cover method of digging. The work was suspended and resumed 5 years later, with tunnelling machines which, although helping to ease traffic problems, caused vibration dam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II (Rome)
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, also known as Piazza Vittorio, is a piazza in Rome, in the Esquilino rione. It is served by the Vittorio Emanuele Metro station. Description Surrounded by palazzi with large porticoes in the 19th-century style, the piazza was built by Gaetano Koch shortly after the unification of Italy. Umbertine in style, it is the largest piazza in Rome (316 x 174 metres). In the centre of the piazza is a garden with the remains of a fountain built by Alexander Severus (so called ''Trophy of Marius''), and the ''Porta Alchemica'' (''Alchemist's Portal'' or also called Magic Gate or ''Porta Magica''), the entrance to Villa Palombara, former residence of the alchemist Marquis Palombara. Cultural References In Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette), it was in Piazza Vittorio that the protagonist Antonio Ricci and his young son Bruno seek desperately to recover his stolen bicycle, but realise the futility of their task as the vast square is filled w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Field Hospital
A field hospital is a temporary hospital or mobile medical unit that takes care of casualties on-site before they can be safely transported to more permanent facilities. This term was initially used in military medicine (such as the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital or MASH), but it has also been used to describe alternate care sites used in disasters and other emergency situations. A field hospital is a medical staff with a mobile medical kit and, often, a wide tent-like shelter (at times an inflatable structure in modern usage) so that it can be readily set up near the source of casualties. In an urban environment, the field hospital is often established in an easily accessible and highly visible building (such as restaurants, schools, hotels and so on). In the case of an airborne structure, the mobile medical kit is often placed in a normalized container; the container itself is then used as shelter. A field hospital is generally larger than a temporary aid station but sma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Complesso Ospedaliero San Giovanni - Addolorata
The Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Addolorata in Rome (Italy) is one of the largest hospitals in central Italy; the current administrative designation refers to one of the largest and oldest hospitals in the city, commonly designated as San Giovanni hospital. History The ''Confraternita del SS. Salvatore'' The hospital of San Giovanni originates from the "Archconfraternity of the Holy Savior" (''Arciconfraternita del Santissimo Salvatore''), established to ensure protection and homage to the '' acheropoieton'' of the Saviour kept in the Sancta Sanctorum. Even before the 13th century "twelve optimate and principal gentlemen of Rome, called ''Ostiarii'', ''Porters'' or ''Recommended by the Holy Savior'' were established to guard it perpetually". The membership in the congregation – which also dealt with the administration of the assets, that were given to charity to fund the charitable works on behalf of the holy image – soon became hereditary among the "optimate and princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Rail Transport
Events January events * January – New Kolkata railway station for long-distance passengers officially inaugurated in Chitpur. * January 5 – Railway workers across India begin voting on whether or not to hold a strike against Indian Railways in February. The union's demands center around pay scales, pensions, and private investment into the railway. A Northern Railway Mazdoor Union spokesperson stated that the decision to hold the strike vote was made at the recent All India Railwaymen's Union convention in Mumbai; Western Railway Mazdoor Sangh union members protested at the convention by burning an effigy of Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram. Voting is scheduled to conclude on January 8, and the vote count, which is expected to begin on January 9, will be monitored by external observers. * January 6 – China's Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun announces details of a 160 billion yuan ( $20 billion) plan for railway construction there in the coming ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Accidents In 2006
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prepared flat surface, rail vehicles (rolling stock) are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Tracks usually consist of steel rails, installed on sleepers (ties) set in ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves. Other variations are also possible, such as "slab track", in which the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface. Rolling stock in a rail transport system generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, so passenger and freight cars (carriages and wagons) can be coupled into longer trains. The operation is carried out by a railway company, providing transport between train stations or freight customer facilit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Italy
Events during the year 2006 in Italy. Incumbents *President: :*Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (until 15 May) :*Giorgio Napolitano (from 15 May) *Prime Minister: :*Silvio Berlusconi (until 17 May) :*Romano Prodi (from 17 May) Events *10–26 February – The Olympic Winter Games are held in Turin. *10–19 March – The Paralympic Winter Games are held in Turin. *9 July – Italy wins the FIFA World Cup by defeating France, 5–3, following a penalty shootout in the final game at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. *13 August – Air Algérie Flight 2208 accident *17 October – 2006 Rome Metro crash Full date unknown *'' Drug Target Insights'' academic journal is founded. Deaths *1 March – Jenny Tamburi, actress and television hostess (b. 1952). *5 April – Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1923). *22 April – Alida Valli, actress (b. 1921). *11 May – Ferdinando Tacconi, comics artist (b. 1922). *9 June – Enzo Siciliano, writer (b. 1934). *15 June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s In Rome
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 2006 Events In Europe
October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian calendar, Julian and Gregorian calendars and the sixth of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar#Legendary 10 month calendar, calendar of Romulus , October retained its name (from Latin language, Latin and Greek language, Greek ''ôctō'' meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans. In Ancient Rome, one of three Lapis manalis, Mundus patet would take place on October 5, Meditrinalia October 11, Augustalia on October 12, October Horse on October 15, and Armilustrium on October 19. These dates do not correspond to the modern Gregorian calendar. Among the Anglo-Saxons, it was known as Winterfylleth (Ƿinterfylleþ), because at this full moon, winter was supposed to begin. October is commonly associated with the season of Spring (Season), spring in parts of the Southern Hemisphere, and autumn in parts of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
