Fremantle Highway off the Dutch coast is burning with 3000 cars, some electric.
One crew member has been killed and several others injured.car-carrying cargo shipSmoke is pouring off the Panamanian-registered Fremantle Highway while water is being poured onto it by rescue ships. The incident is happening 17 miles west of the Dutch island of Ameland.reports the 652-foot ship was carrying 2857 cars from Germany to Egypt, 25 of them electric. An electric car was the suspected source of the blaze, according to a Dutch Coast Guard spokesperson.
"The fire is most definitely still not controlled. It's a very hard fire to extinguish, possibly because of the cargo the ship was transporting," said Edwin Versteeg, a spokesperson for the Dutch Department of Waterways and Public Works. Earlier this month an Italian cargo ship docked at the Port of Newark, New Jersey, that had been carrying 1200 new and used vehicles caught fire and burned for days. Two firefighters died battling the blaze and 20 others suffered injuries.
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