Engine-room fire in a ship docked in Charlestown quickly doused

By adamg on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 11:18pm

Firefighters get ready to board ship. Photo by BFD.

Boston firefighters responded to the Boston Autoport off Terminal Street in Charlestown after some electrical equipment caught on fire around 8:30 p.m. in the engine room of the Symphony, which had arrived in Boston from Dublin earlier in the day.

The ship's crew was able to put out the fire in some switch gear with extinguishers, two levels below deck.

The Boston Fire Department reports no injuries.

The 427-foot-long ship was docked in the Mystic, near the Tobin Bridge.

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Comments

Little or no property damage

By anon on Tue, 07/23/2024 - 12:45am.

unless it was carrying Guinness

Glad It Wasn't From Tel Aviv

By John Costello on Tue, 07/23/2024 - 1:33pm.

It would have been filled with munitions to bomb hospitals and schools.

You want to play up a stereotype, well there's another.

Jeebus...

By Friartuck on Tue, 07/23/2024 - 7:46pm.

I sometimes wonder if you and rwgfy are conjoined twins but I'm just not sure even now

John, huh?

By brianjdamico on Tue, 07/23/2024 - 8:07pm.

If a ship was coming from an Israeli port, why would it be loaded with munitions? Isn't the weaponry flowing in the opposite direction?

A cargo ship coming from Ireland might be carrying Irish goods, yes?

I think this is about the Guinness...

By lbb on Wed, 07/24/2024 - 10:15am.

You want to play up a stereotype, well there's another.

I think you're barking at the wrong dogwhistle, John. My guess is this was a dumb joke about Guinness being a meh beer, since Guinness is, after all, not an explosive. It's just a bad beer, and the damage it does is to the consumer.

Magoo sez

By MisterMagooForYou on Tue, 07/23/2024 - 6:48am.

Roving Magooter, Magoo was there to toast Magoo’s Magoomallows. Magoo.