# Staten Island Ferry Fire **URL:** \ **Category:** Marine Incidents\ **Created:** [December 22, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/staten-island-ferry-fire/64994 "2022-12-22T23:18:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![New3M](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/new3m/32/394_2.png) [@New3M](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New3M)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/staten-island-ferry-fire/64994/1 "2022-12-22T23:18:50Z")
Reports of the Sandy Ground having an engine room fire and evacuating 600+ passengers onto tugboats. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/0/8/08e7ea5807bd7c7713cea833176559cd9940847c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![shipengr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/shipengr/32/485_2.png) [@shipengr](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/shipengr)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/staten-island-ferry-fire/64994/2 "2022-12-23T02:58:50Z")
> **[More than 800 passengers evacuated after fire breaks out on Staten Island ferry](https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/more-than-800-passengers-evacuated-staten-island-ferry-fire/)** > > At a presser on Thursday, FDNY officials confirmed five people suffered minor injuries, and three were taken to a local hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Hornblower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@Hornblower](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Hornblower)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/staten-island-ferry-fire/64994/3 "2022-12-23T11:58:37Z")
Sounds like they did a good job getting everyone off so well done there. ---
**Author:** ![Bruce1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@Bruce1](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Bruce1)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/staten-island-ferry-fire/64994/4 "2022-12-29T11:23:13Z")
Before my retirement I was the primary surveyor for WETA in San Francisco also Blue and Gold fleet before they folded into WETA . The crews extensively train for this and so the crew does what they have been trained for. Well DONE!! New York. on the flip side there is another ferry company that instructed their captains NOT to use the CO2 system due to the expense of having to service the system and to enter the space with a hand held. ---
**Author:** ![Tugboater203](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/tugboater203/32/14108_2.png) [@Tugboater203](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Tugboater203)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/staten-island-ferry-fire/64994/5 "2022-12-29T12:38:22Z")
The fact the boat is back in service and that they got that many passengers off safely is a true testament that their saftey program is effective. A really well done job ---
**Author:** ![El\_Segundo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@El\_Segundo](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/El_Segundo)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/staten-island-ferry-fire/64994/6 "2022-12-30T02:14:02Z")
I don’t think she’ll be back in service for some time. > **[S.I. Ferry fire: Photos show blackened equipment inside engine room; Coast...](https://www.silive.com/news/2022/12/staten-island-ferry-fire-photos-show-blackened-equipment-inside-engine-room-coast-guard-zeroes-in-on-cause.html)** > > Officials at the Department of Transportation would not give details of the investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Tugboater203](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/tugboater203/32/14108_2.png) [@Tugboater203](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Tugboater203)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/staten-island-ferry-fire/64994/7 "2022-12-30T03:50:58Z")
I stand corrected, thanks for the article. I was surprised to hear them check in with Traffic the other day and jumped to conclusions. ---
**Author:** ![LI\_Domer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/li_domer/32/768_2.png) [@LI\_Domer](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/LI_Domer)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 6:06am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/staten-island-ferry-fire/64994/8 "2022-12-30T06:06:53Z")
> [@Bruce1](#): > > on the flip side there is another ferry company that instructed their captains NOT to use the CO2 system due to the expense of having to service the system and to enter the space with a hand held. Oof, when did that happen? ---
**Author:** ![Bruce1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9de053/32.png) [@Bruce1](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Bruce1)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/staten-island-ferry-fire/64994/9 "2022-12-30T09:32:12Z")
it was SOP in the 1990 through 2010 as far as people employed there were telling me. and the sources were very reliable, people I had known for many years. not sure what’s going on now. these municipalities’ especially in California are their own little kingdoms and answer to no one ---
**Author:** ![El\_Segundo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@El\_Segundo](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/El_Segundo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/staten-island-ferry-fire/64994/10 "2023-02-04T18:47:03Z")
Anyone have any updates? I see the vessel is at Caddell’s.