Round 900 passengers evacuated after Staten Island Ferry engine fireplace | Video | World News

Emergency personnel evacuated practically 900 passengers from a Staten Island Ferry vessel Thursday night following a fireplace within the ship's engine room.

The New York Metropolis Fireplace Division mentioned models responded to a report of a hearth within the mechanical room of a ship in higher New York Bay shortly after 5pm, WNBC-TV reported.

5 individuals had been reported injured, three of them requiring hospital remedy, WNBC-TV mentioned.

Deputy assistant fireplace chief Frank Leeb mentioned throughout a information convention there have been roughly 868 individuals on the vessel, the Sandy Floor, with an extra 16 crew members.

The US Coast Guard evacuated the passengers, together with a number of sporting life jackets, to the St George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island. The ferry’s crew members had been additionally taken off the boat. The evacuation took lower than an hour, WNBC-TV reported.

The division will wait a minimal of 24 hours and monitor temperatures earlier than getting into the engine room to find out whether or not the fireplace is totally extinguished, Leeb mentioned.

He credited the ship’s crew with quick motion to inform the Coast Guard. “They had been additionally very fast to make it possible for they sealed the engine room, evacuated the realm and adopted the protocol to place the CO2 into that” to take away the room’s oxygen, Leeb mentioned.

The NYC Division of Transportation mentioned the Sandy Floor was briefly anchored close to Bayonne, New Jersey, as passengers had been transferred. A spokesperson for NY Waterway mentioned one in all its ferries assisted with the evacuation.

The fireplace division mentioned the fireplace was contained to the ship’s engine room and stack.

(Video producer Annika Wolters contributed to this report from Bangkok)