Grande Costa D’Avorio
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Fireboats of New York City came to assistance of the Newark Fire Department because Newark's fireboats were not in working order.
The Grande Costa D’Avorio is an Italian freighter. She was built to simultaneously carry a deck cargo of Intermodal container and an internal cargo of automobiles or other road vehicles. She was launched in 2011. She survived a catastrophic fire, in Newark, New Jersey, on July 5, 2023.[1][2]
References
- ↑ Wayne Parry. Union, kin of firefighters killed in cargo ship blaze call for new Newark fire department leadership, Washington Post, 2024-01-17. Retrieved on 2024-01-18. “And Jackson testified that on the day of the fire, both of Newark’s fire boats were in working condition and able to be deployed, only to be contradicted by the head of a fire boat task force who testified that both of Newark’s boats were not in service that day. In fact, one had not been fit for duty for at least a year, said Francis Gorman, head of the New Jersey Regional Fireboat Task Force.”
- ↑ ‘Deaths were preventable,’ say anguished family members of 2 firefighters lost in Port Newark fire, NJ.com, 2024-01-17. Retrieved on 2024-01-18.