Firemen are battling to extinguish a fire that broke out on Wednesday on a vessel conveying great many extravagance vehicles, which is unfastened off the shoreline of Portugal’s Azores islands, a port authority said, adding it was hazy when they would succeed.

The Felicity Ace boat, hefting around 4,000 vehicles including Porsches, Audis and Bentleys, some electric with lithium-particle batteries, burst into flames in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday. The 22 group individuals on board were emptied around the same time. understand more

The mediation must be done gradually, João Mendes Cabeças, skipper of the closest port in the Azorean island of Faial, told Reuters late on Saturday. It will take some time.

Lithium-particle batteries in the electric vehicles on board are keeping the fire alive, Cabeças said, adding that expert gear to quench it was coming.

It was not satisfactory whether the batteries started the fire.

• Volkswagen, which claims the brands, didn’t affirm the absolute number of vehicles ready and said on Friday it was anticipating additional data. Transport director Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd didn’t quickly react to a solicitation for input.
• Cabeças recently said that everything was ablaze around five meters over the water line and the blast was still a long way from the boat’s gas tanks. It is drawing nearer, he said.
• The fire spread further down, he said, clarifying that groups could handle the fire from outside by chilling off the boat’s design as it was too risky to even consider getting onto.

They additionally can’t utilize water in light of the fact that adding weight to the boat could make it more temperamental, and conventional water dousers don’t prevent lithium-particle batteries from consuming, Cabeças said.

The Panama-hailed boat will be towed to a country in Europe or to the Bahamas however indistinct when will occur.

Detailing by Catarina Demony in Lisbon; Additional announcing by Victoria Waldersee in Berlin; Editing by Barbara Lewis

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