There are signs of progress at Port Newark where a cargo ship fire is still burning three days later.
According to officials, crews have been able to contain the fire to the ship's 11th deck, and they say the fire is no longer spreading to other areas of the vessel.Firefighters doused the unrelenting smoke and flames aboard the Grande Costa D'Avorio , but there did not appear to be smoke coming out of the ship early Saturday morning.
"There's a team of 20-plus firefighters and additional salvage support, who have been fighting this fire around the clock since it began," Tim Wiker, president of Gallagher Marine Systems, said Friday.The ship been tilting to its starboard side as it takes on water in the firefight. Crews have been using pumps and poking holes through the hull to allow water to drain out.
Officials say the ship will"continue to list between one and two degrees to starboard as a way to accelerate the dewatering process." The Grimaldi Group, operator of the ship, said the Grande Costa D'Avorio caught fire as cars, vans and trucks were being loaded"A lot of these are used vehicles that probably can't meet requirements on U.S. roads anymore. So these vehicles may not have been the most safe vehicles to begin with,"
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