Smoke divers deployed: Fireplace on massive crusing ship

North Jutland’s emergency division obtained Wednesday at 17.53 an alarm name a few attainable hearth on a big crusing ship in Thisted Harbour.

When the firemen arrived on the port, they might see heavy smoke from the “Skonnerten Jylland” – a three-masted social academic ship venture with its residence port in Thisted.

Smoke divers had been deployed, and with steerage from the ship’s skipper, they activated a hearth extinguishing system within the ship’s engine room.

– There have been no individuals on the ship, says incident chief Troels Guldbrandtsen from North Jutland Emergency Companies.

Firefighters rushed on board the ship following the alarm.
Picture: Bo Lehm

The incident chief states that the ship’s skipper had obtained a message on his cell phone from a hearth alarm on the ship, following which the emergency providers had been alerted.

The smoke had unfold contained in the ship, and smoke divers started to ventilate it.

Presently, emergency providers have no idea why the fireplace began.

North Jutland’s emergency division obtained Wednesday at 17.53 an alarm name a few attainable hearth on a ship in Thisted Harbour.
Picture: Bo Lehm

Skipper Niels Kristensen says that the smoke got here from the engine room and that it may be attributable to {an electrical} quick circuit. In any case, there was a powerful scent of burnt plastic.

– Now we will need to have an summary of what appears to have occurred earlier than we all know the results, says Niels Kristensen.
The following scheduled journey with the schooner is in a month’s time.

Station Thisted has been pushed to a hearth in a ship on the quay.
There’s a report of smoke on a 3-masted schooner within the harbour.
We’re transferring ahead and deploying a smoke diving workforce to research what’s smoking.

— Nordjyllands Beredskab (@NjylBeredskab) Could 29, 2024