A fire that broke out on Monday aboard a car ferry carrying 300 people was extinguished and the fire did not cause any casualties, we learned from the Swedish maritime authorities.
The “Stena Scandica” was providing a link between Latvia and Sweden in the Baltic Sea when the alarm was given around 12:30 p.m. local time (10:30 a.m. GMT) of a fire on board, according to the company and the rescue services.
A truck on the parking deck
According to the company Stena Line which operates the ferry, the fire seems to have spread from a refrigerated truck on the car deck.
"The fire is out," Lisa Mjörning, a spokeswoman for the Swedish Maritime Authority, said at around 1:30 p.m. GMT.
The ferry was making a crossing between the Latvian port of Ventspils and that of Nynäshamn, near Stockholm, where it will be towed.
All 300 people on the ferry (about 240 passengers and 60 crew) remained on board, the spokeswoman said, correcting initial information that an evacuation had begun.
“There were no injuries on board and there was no evacuation,” according to the maritime authority.
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