Another fire has engulfed another car-carrying cargo ship, with one crew member killed and several others injured.
Smoke is pouring off the Panamanian-registered Fremantle Highway while water is being poured onto it by rescue ships. The incident is happening 17 miles west of the Dutch island of Ameland.
Reuters reports the 652-foot ship was carrying 2857 cars from Germany to Egypt, 25 of them electric. An electric car was the suspected source of the blaze, according to a Dutch Coast Guard spokesperson.
“The fire is most definitely still not controlled. It’s a very hard fire to extinguish, possibly because of the cargo the ship was transporting,” said Edwin Versteeg, a spokesperson for the Dutch Department of Waterways and Public Works.
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