{"id":11073,"date":"2020-06-05T03:49:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/fire-explosion-aboard-car-carrier-at-port-of-jacksonville\/11073\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T03:49:16","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T00:49:16","slug":"fire-explosion-aboard-car-carrier-at-port-of-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/fire-explosion-aboard-car-carrier-at-port-of-jacksonville\/11073\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire, Explosion Aboard Car Carrier at Port of Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>[Breaking] About 120 firefighters are working to bring a blaze under control aboard the car carrier&nbsp;<em>Hoegh Xiamen <\/em>at the port of Jacksonville, Florida.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a social media update at 1915 hours, the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department said that &quot;there has been an explosion on the ship&#8230; firefighters are hurt.&quot; The department said that it was classifying the incident as a mass casualty incident level one (MCI Level One).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out on the vehicle&#039;s seventh deck at about 1600 hours Thursday. It has spread to multiple levels, Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department Chief Keith Powers told local media at a news conference Thursday evening. He said that he expects the firefighting effort to continue through the night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CYbIK0FtHc\">pic.twitter.com\/CYbIK0FtHc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MyJFRD (@JFRDJAX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JFRDJAX\/status\/1268647364518129668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There has been an explosion on the ship&#8230; firefighters are hurt&#8230; this od now an MCI level I<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MyJFRD (@JFRDJAX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JFRDJAX\/status\/1268681775095656449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All 21 of her crew got off safely and have been accounted for, the U.S. Coast Guard said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AIS data shows that the <em>Xiamen <\/em>is moored at a car terminal at Blount Island. As a precautionary measure, the Coast Guard has established a&nbsp;500-yard safety zone&nbsp;around the vessel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Breaking] About 120 firefighters are working to bring a blaze under control aboard the car carrier&nbsp;Hoegh Xiamen at the port of Jacksonville, Florida.&nbsp; In a social media update at 1915 hours, the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department said that &quot;there has been an explosion on the ship&#8230; firefighters are hurt.&quot; The department said that it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2609,3310,934,1864,1134,2561,1932,7274,7278,792,7275,7276,7277,953,128],"class_list":["post-11073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-aboard","tag-car","tag-car-carrier","tag-carrier","tag-coast-guard","tag-explosion","tag-fire","tag-hoegh-xiamen","tag-jacksonville","tag-jaxport","tag-jfrd","tag-keith-powers","tag-mci","tag-port","tag-uscg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/11074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}