AUGUST 19, 2016– As action initiatives proceeded, the Coast Guard claimed the other day that the fire continued to be energetic aboard the 561-foot guest ferryboat vessel Caribbean Fantasy around half a mile off of Punta Salinas, Puerto Rico.
While all 511 individuals aboard the vessel, consisting of staff, have actually been saved, together with 5 animals, the Coast Guard claimed that 2 animals may still be aboard which an effort to find as well as save them would certainly be made when risk-free for rescue groups to get in the vessel.
The fire apparently started in the engine space of the ship as well as infect various other areas aboard.
The Unified Command established to react to the event contains the Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board, the Puerto Rico Department of Natural as well as Environmental Resources as well as Baja Ferries (proprietor of the Caribbean Fantasy).
Also helping the action initiatives are American Cruise Ferries, Ardent Global, the Department of Fish as well as Wildlife Service, the Department of Planning as well as Natural Resources, the National Response Corporation, the National Oceanic as well as Atmospheric Administration, Witt O’Brien’s, the Puerto Rico Emergency Management Agency as well as the Puerto Rico Fire Department.
Ardent Global is creating a vessel salvage prepare for evaluation by the Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard has actually developed a 1,000-yard safety and security area around the vessel. There are no records of sheening or contamination.
The vessel is being very closely monitored as well as thriving has actually been released at the consumption for the Palo Seco Power Plant as a preventive step versus possible discharge from the vessel. Another 14,000-feet of thriving has actually been pre-staged near Punta Salinas.
