Ran across this little blurb. Sounds like the fire might be out. Marine Traffic shows the ship in the middle of the channel: [image] 9 firefighters injured from vehicle-carrying ship fire in Blount Island JFRD says eight of them were injured from an explosion that occurred before 7 p.m. …

In the UK its the opposite, health and safety rules prevent the ‘professional firefighters from live training in a hot box’ hence you could say seamen are trained to a much higher standard.

From this site: Explosion on car carrier off Jacksonville, Florida | Insurance Marine News Eight firefighters were injured in an explosion aboard car carrier Hoegh Xiamen (IMO 9431848) which was berthed at the Blount Island Marine Terminal in the port of Jacksonville, Florida, during t…

An enclosed space is not required for a flashover. In this training video most of one wall is missing, there’s just enough at the top to trap the hot gases Forward to about 2:50 to see the flashover. [Flashover Demonstration] Flashover A flashover is the near-simultaneous i…

If by ‘hot box’ you mean a small room, I’m questioning the fact that UK rules prevent firefighters from training to fight fire in confined spaces.

Hot box is the steel building that simulates a ship, has about 6 levels and can be sealed when on fire. As explained to me by the ex firefighters that run the fire part of Nautical centre in the UK where I did my firefighting in that steel building Local firefighters do not use the Marine facility…

I was curious about the term. I’ve trained for shipboard firefighting in the US in a steel structure simulating a ship but not with that many levels and it wasn’t called a hot box. Our FDs train in something like what you describe, several stories and shaped like a tall square box.

Professional large city firefighters are going to have far more experience fighting fires than ship’s crew. How many mariners have fought more than small fires? I ask at meetings, it’s very few. Don’t know yet if it was an issue here but the fact that many fire departments in port cities are not w…

yep with a welded up interior with stairs and cabins etc, I’m sure its the same? They can make the building hot enough to melt your helmet although that is above your training temp. It a very hot box… The lesson well learned is a very small fire in an enclosed space gets very very hot

There are courses available to municipal FDs to train for special types of fires to suit their communities which may include responses to ship or airplane fires. I think it’s safe to say a fire dept in a town with a big chemical plant or oil refinery trains to fight those kinds of fires.

Very often large chemical plants and oil refineries have their own on-site industrial fire departments given the nature of the business and potential risks.

Car Carrier Hoegh Xiamen fire and explosion in Jacksonville - Eight firefighters injured - #29 by Kennebec_Captain - Maritime News

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