NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The North Charleston Fire Department celebrated the groundbreaking of a new facility. It aims to train firefighters for maritime emergencies. The shipboard firefighting ...

With lithium battery fires, alternative fuels, and automated systems reshaping maritime fire risk, industry leaders push for updated response protocols When a container ship carrying electric vehicles ...

Training failures which contributed to the deaths of two firefighters on a RoRo ship at Port Newark in July 2023 are part of a broader nationwide shortfall in shipboard firefighter training, according ...

Senior Researcher Dr. Hyuk Lee(left) of the KIMM developed a fire suppression system for initial response to oil fires on naval vessels. A next-generation fire suppression system capable of ...

A cargo ship carrying hundreds of electric vehicles from China to Mexico this week burned so stubbornly that the ship’s fire suppression system was unable to contain it, forcing the evacuation of 22 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fire broke out on the fishing vessel Kodiak Enterprise on April 8, 2023, while it was docked in Hylebos Waterway in the Port of ...

A fire burned aboard a US Navy warship anchored off Okinawa for 12 hours, injuring two sailors, a statement from the Navy’s 7th Fleet in Japan said. The fire aboard the USS New Orleans, an amphibious ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The crew of a cargo ship carrying 3,000 vehicles to Mexico, including 800 electric vehicles, abandoned ship after they could not control a fire aboard the vessel in waters off ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (KATU) — Vancouver Fire was called to the Port of Vancouver on Tuesday night to battle a blaze in a cargo ship. Vancouver Fire says a crew member saw smoke and flames coming from a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The North Charleston Fire Department celebrated the groundbreaking of a new facility. It aims to ...