A fire broke out onboard the Carnival Cruise Line’s cruise ship Carnival Freedom shortly after it docked at Grand Turk in the Turks and Caicos Islands, on May 26.
According to Carnival Cruise Line, the fire was contained in the funnel of the 110,000 gross ton cruise ship and that no one aboard was injured.
Upon notice of the fire, passengers were assembled at muster stations but later reported that they were instructed that they could go ashore. They said they were being told that the fire was under control and that there was no immediate danger.
In fact, Carnival confirmed that local authorities had cleared the ship and passengers were being permitted to go ashore while the fire was being investigated.
The cruise line did not report how many passengers are aboard this cruise, but the ship has a capacity of 2,980 passengers and normally has 1,150 crew.
TURKS AND CAICOS – Carnival Cruise on fire.#CNN pic.twitter.com/8OxFJ3eNch
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