MOL Containership Suffers Fire at Port of Oakland

Firefighters in Oakland battled a two-alarm blaze within the superstructure of a cargo ship berthed on the Port of Oakland on Sunday night.

The fireplace was reported simply earlier than 6 p.m. Sunday aboard the MOL Contribution berthed at Pier 32 on the port, in line with media studies. The Oakland Fire Department tweeted that the fireplace broke out in an officer’s cabin about 5 flooring above the ship’s principal deck. Firefighters had been confronted with heavy smoke and tight quarters in battling the blaze.

The fireplace was introduced underneath management inside a few half hour of the Oakland Fire Department’s arrival, the Department tweeted.

Reports say that smoke and a few fireplace broken unfold from the cabin to some close by areas of the ship.

No accidents had been reported.

The reason behind the fireplace is underneath investigation.

The 90,000 DWT MOL Contribution is Marshall Islands-flagged and was inbuilt 2014.