Two firefighters were killed battling a fire aboard a cargo ship that was loaded with 5,000 cars at Port Newark in New Jersey, officials said Thursday.
Two firefighters were killed during an effort to extinguish a fire that broke out inside a cargo ship at a New Jersey port on Wednesday night, authorities said. that erupted Wednesday night inside a cargo ship carrying 5,000 cars at Port Newark in New Jersey, fire officials said.
Firefighters were initially unable to find their lost colleagues. When the lost firefighters were eventually found, they were removed from the ship and pronounced dead. "We lost two firefighters today," said Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at the scene."A tragedy for us in the city of Newark and tragic for all firefighters who know what it means to go in a burning structure in a danger that you are going to have to experience when you do so."The names of the firefighters killed were not immediately released.
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