Posted on 07/06/2023 11:36:02 AM PDT by navysealdad
Two firefighters were killed battling a blaze that began when cars caught fire deep inside a cargo ship carrying 5,000 cars at a New Jersey port, Newark's fire chief said Thursday. Five other firefighters were injured but were expected to recover.
Responding firefighters found five to seven vehicles already on fire when they reached the 10th floor of the cargo ship at Port Newark around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night. The blaze quickly extended to the 11th and 12th floors, and as firefighters were pushed back by the intense heat, two of them were lost, Fire Chief Rufus Jackson said at a news conference.
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EV batteries?
What kind of cars ?
“EV batteries?”
Almost has to be, to be able to spread, since the gasoline vehicles wouldn’t be fueled. Sad that firefighters are forced to put their lives on the line for Teslas (or whatever)...prior to this, they would only risk their lives to pull people out of fires.
Having been trained in fire fighting on board ships when I was in the CG, the average FF is not trained enough in this environment. Very sad to hear.
I would give that about a 99% chance. Ev’s don’t even have to be rolling to be killers.
Car fires are the worst. We had a Honda Civic on fire once and it took us an hour to get that one u see control. The Catalytic Converter was white hot, nothing would put it out..
Associated Propaganda doesn't even care to use the proper term "deck".
Gasoline vehicles do have fuel in the tanks while being transported on ships. They're driven on and off the ship.
Yep. Shipped vehicles back in March.
They did have to have less than 1/4 tank or the shipping company would have refused.
shipping fuel load in gasoline cars is about a gallon.
Once a gasoline car catches fire, lots of plastic to burn.
I suspect it is more likely to be EVs, but with current quality problems, bad wiring causes spark or heat and sets off the gasoline.
There is fuel in ICE vehicles, they drive the cars on and off the ships.
I’m not buying your story.
The fire department near the shipyard and docks in Portland Oregon were well trained in ship board fires.
Used cars headed overseas for resale.
Yeah, some metals can just keep burning even if you smother them completely, since if they are oxidized, they have their own supply of oxygen to feed the fire.
They did some welding on a metal retaining wall that is on the side of this kind of canal/slip that is outside my office about a month ago. For a few hours, we could see smoke bubbling up from the water, because something just kept burning despite being completely underwater.
Shipboard fires SUCK! RIP firefighters!
definitely EV autos. I would bet $1000 on it.
A friend is a fire chief in a neighboring town.
I asked him: what do your guys do for EV auto fires?
His reply: Nothing. Let it burn. If its in a home garage, we sacrifice the garage and try to keep it from spreading to the house.
https://abc7ny.com/port-newark-fire-firefighters-killed-deadly-nj/13468998/
After reading that, and reading between the lines, I’m really wondering about the EV angle.
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