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Ship carrying 800 EVs catches fire in the Pacific, crew abandons ship [1]
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Date: 2025-06-05
On or around the international dateline, 300 miles south of the Aleutian Islands, a vehicle carrier catches fire.
US Coast Guard and civilian vessels have rescued 22 sailors off the coast of Alaska after some of the electric cars they were transporting caught fire.
The good ship Morning Midas - a roll-on, roll-off ferry that was delivering 3,000 vehicles from Yantai, China, to Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico - is currently around 304 miles south of Adak, Alaska, the US Coast Guard tells us. The sailors on the vessel, operated by UK-based Zodiac Maritime, noticed the fire at around midnight UTC on 3 June and were unable to stop the conflagration.
"The vessel is loaded with around 3,000 vehicles, 800 of which are electric vehicles," Zodiac Marine told The Register. "Smoke was initially seen emanating from a deck carrying electric vehicles."
"The crew immediately initiated emergency firefighting procedures using the vessel’s onboard fire suppression systems. However, despite their efforts, the situation could not be brought under control."
The crew made a distress call and boarded lifeboats. Nearby merchant vessels responded and rescued the mariners, the Coast Guard tells us. The ship is now likely to continue burning until specialized fire-fighting crews arrive and attempt to halt the blaze.
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