{"id":3169,"date":"2019-09-30T12:29:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T09:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2019-09-30T12:29:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T09:29:57","slug":"greek-ferry-suffers-fire-returns-to-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/greek-ferry-suffers-fire-returns-to-port\/3169\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Ferry Suffers Fire, Returns to Port"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Greek ferry returned to the port of Igoumenitsa in Greece with over 600 people aboard after a fire started aboard the vessel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Hellenic Coast Guard, the fire started in the garage section of the 2000-built ferry Olympic Champion shortly after it departed the port en route to Venice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ship, operated by Anek Lines, docked at the port where it was evacuated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, there were 538 passengers, 79 crew members on board, along with 293 vehicles. Two passengers were transported to a hospital after they suffered respiratory system problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coast guard noted that there were no reports of pollution following the fire, adding that an investigation into the causes of the incident was launched by relevant authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"664\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lKv3a6q_Qc8\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>World Maritime News Staff; Video Courtesy: DroneworX TS\/Youtube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Greek ferry returned to the port of Igoumenitsa in Greece with over 600 people aboard after a fire started aboard the vessel. According to the Hellenic Coast Guard, the fire started in the garage section of the 2000-built ferry Olympic Champion shortly after it departed the port en route to Venice. The ship, operated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,59],"tags":[673],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-port-news","tag-greek-ferry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","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=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}