There is no word yet from Carnival whether it will promptly fly its customers back to Florida and issue a full refund. We continue to assess the situation.”Ĭarnival Freedom earlier today □□ The fire was put out and all are safe. All guests and crew are safe, and the ship’s guests were cleared by local authorities to go ashore. qEULezNgq2Ĭarnival Cruise Line issued a PR statement, saying: “ Carnival Freedom‘s emergency response team quickly activated and extinguished a fire inside the ship’s funnel while the ship was in Grand Turk. NEW VIDEO: The Carnival cruise ship fire was caught on camera by a passenger from a nearby boat. Martime expert Bill Doherty posted on Facebook these comments: “Why wasn’t General Alarm for FIRE sounded and passengers and crew mustered, accounted for and non- essential persons, immediately evacuated?”įOX35 Orlando published photos and video courtesy of cruise passenger Ricky Ruble (top). You can see many dozens of photographs and video of the large fire on Twitter. I also see lots of guests standing around taking videos including some guests who remained in the swiming pool. There is one popular blog that claims passengers were summoned to their muster stations and donned life jackets, and if true I wonder why they would be doing this given the fact that the ship was at port. Fortunately, there are no injuries reported so far.Ī large number of cruise guests posted images on Twitter of what appears to be a fire coming from inside the ship’s funnel. A fire broke out this morning on the Carnival Freedom while the cruise ship was in Grand Turk.
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