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Firefighters Tackle Fire On Passenger Ferry

Sunday, 22 July 2007
Kent firefighters have tackled a boat trailer fire on the car deck of a passenger ferry at Eastern Docks, Dover.

The first call came at 9.37 this morning but the fire had been successfully extinguished by 10.17. As a purely precautionary measure, passengers on board the Maersk Dunkerque were evacuated. All ferry services are running as normal.

Four ship Breathing Apparatus (BA) crews, along with BA crews from KFRS were sent on to the ferry to deal with the incident.

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