FULL VIDEO: Carnival cruise ship catches fire in Grand Turk
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VIDEO: Carnival cruise ship catches fire in Grand Turk
Video of the Carnival cruise ship that left Port Canaveral catches fire while docked in Grand Turk
Viewer videos show smoke and flames billowing from a cruise ship docked in Grand Turk Thursday.
The Carnival Freedom left Port Canaveral on Monday and was docked in Grand Turk when the fire broke out, passengers said.
WESH 2 News obtained video of the fire from a passenger identified as @Chester4x4 on Twitter. That passenger said everyone on the ship had to assemble at the muster station and put on life jackets. No evacuations were ordered, and the passenger said he believed the situation was under control.
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Another video shows a different perspective of the flaming cruise ship.
“That is wild! The workers ain’t worried though. They’re just standing there,” one man is heard saying on the video.
Carnival said the fire started inside the ship’s funnel and it was quickly put out my emergency responders.
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No injuries have been reported at this time.
The crew and guests were cleared by local authorities to disembark on land, Carnival Cruise Line said in a statement.
The 948-foot vessel was built in 2007 and can carry up to 3,581 passengers, according to CruiseMapper.
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