Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece. An ...
March 24, 1999 — a truck catches fire deep inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. Within minutes, the flames transform the 7-mile tunnel into a death trap of toxic smoke and unbearable heat. Thirty-nine lives ...