Container ship drops dangerous cargo and catches fire of BC Coast

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fire-container-ship-hazardous-materials-1.6223180

Crews cool burning container ship in B.C. overnight, but chemical cargo prevented dousing flames directly

2 of the burning containers on ship's deck held 'reactive flammable' potassium amylxanthate

CBC News · Posted: Oct 24, 2021 8:09 AM PT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago


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Ships work to control a fire onboard the MV Zim Kingston about eight kilometres from the shore in Victoria on Sunday. The container ship caught fire on Saturday and 16 crew members were evacuated and brought to Ogden Point Pier. (Chad Hipolito/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

A container fire aboard a freight ship off Victoria continued to burn Sunday, after response vessels spent the night cooling the boat's hull itself with water.

But responders could not douse the flames directly because of the chemicals in the MV Zim Kingston's burning cargo, the Canadian Coast Guard said on Sunday morning.

"Due to the nature of chemicals onboard the container ship, applying water directly to the fire is not an option," the federal agency said in a tweet just after 9 a.m. PT on Sunday.

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[Bev54]

1. Prior to the fire on the ship, about 40 containers went overboard in rough waters

35 of them were found floating but not sure what is in the containers that were lost, sounds like it could be dangerous chemicals.

[applegrove]

2. Devastating. TV report said some of the containers they lost had dangerous goods. So that's pretty

bad. Apparently it is more common for ships as they get bigger and bigger to lose their containers. This ship was 13 years old.