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steve308
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JUL 26, 06:56 PM
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Another fire has engulfed another car-carrying cargo ship, with one crew member killed and several others injured.
Smoke is pouring off the Panamanian-registered Fremantle Highway while water is being poured onto it by rescue ships. The incident is happening 17 miles west of the Dutch island of Ameland.
Reuters reports the 652-foot ship was carrying 2857 cars from Germany to Egypt, 25 of them electric. An electric car was the suspected source of the blaze, according to a Dutch Coast Guard spokesperson.
"The fire is most definitely still not controlled. It's a very hard fire to extinguish, possibly because of the cargo the ship was transporting," said Edwin Versteeg, a spokesperson for the Dutch Department of Waterways and Public Works.
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rinselberg
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JUL 26, 07:24 PM
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I question whether it has actually been established that the fire started because of any of the 25 EVs that were being transported, along with 2832 other vehicles.
"Cargo ship carrying nearly 3,000 cars catches fire, leaves one dead"
| quote | | The ship caught fire off the Dutch coast, and the source of the fire is still unclear |
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Zac Palmer for AutoBlog; July 26, 2023.
https://www.autoblog.com/20...Fmagazine%2FAutoblog
"Surprise! Media is misreporting the source of a Dutch cargo ship fire"
Jameson Dow for "electrek"; July 26, 2023.
https://electrek.co/2023/07...tch-cargo-ship-fire/[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 07-26-2023).]
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shemdogg
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JUL 26, 07:50 PM
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Probably just operator error like this guy
lmao
shem
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