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Container ship drops dangerous cargo and catches fire of BC Coast
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fire-container-ship-hazardous-materials-1.6223180Crews cool burning container ship in B.C. overnight, but chemical cargo prevented dousing flames directly
2 of the burning containers on ship's deck held 'reactive flammable' potassium amylxanthate
CBC News · Posted: Oct 24, 2021 8:09 AM PT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago
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Ships work to control a fire onboard the MV Zim Kingston about eight kilometres from the shore in Victoria on Sunday. The container ship caught fire on Saturday and 16 crew members were evacuated and brought to Ogden Point Pier. (Chad Hipolito/THE CANADIAN PRESS)
A container fire aboard a freight ship off Victoria continued to burn Sunday, after response vessels spent the night cooling the boat's hull itself with water.
But responders could not douse the flames directly because of the chemicals in the MV Zim Kingston's burning cargo, the Canadian Coast Guard said on Sunday morning.
"Due to the nature of chemicals onboard the container ship, applying water directly to the fire is not an option," the federal agency said in a tweet just after 9 a.m. PT on Sunday.
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