The cargo ship blaze that erupted Wednesday night at Port Newark and killed two firefighters is expected to burn for several more days as crews work to contain the flames and keep the steel vessel from tipping.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.that erupted Wednesday night at Port Newark and killed two firefighters is expected to burn for several more days as crews work to contain the flames and keep the steel vessel from tipping, officials said.
Roger Terry, Brooks’ uncle, said the 16-year veteran firefighter was like a son to him and a “real-life Superman.” “The heat is extreme, it’s a steel box, so it’s a very complex situation, and you need a very good plan to be able to put firefighters in the vessel to put out these fires,” Gordon Lorenson, project manager at Donjon Marine, which is helping with fire operations said during a press conference Friday. “It’s burning very hot so currently a lot of the decks that are burning and the cars that are burning are inaccessible.
But the blaze has raised questions about why local crews were responding to a complex shipboard fire and why firefighters were initially battling flames with small-diameter hoses that were the only ones available on the European ship, according to“Shipboard firefighting is a unique skill. This is not a common fire for the city of Newark and the Newark firefighters,” Fire Chief Rufus Jackson said on Thursday.
Port Authority and Newark public safety officials said firefighters do receive training. But every cargo ship is different and it’s not clear when Newark firefighters were last trained on marine firefighting skills. “Bear was an amazing person, loved his family, loved the job, very tough time for us, he’s never forgotten,” said Michael Johnson, a firefighter who worked with Brooks as a member of Ladder 4.
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