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Fire Breaks Out Aboard Royal Caribbean’s Cruise Ship
BALTIMORE — An announcement from Royal Caribbean cruise ship staff that passengers needed to go to their muster stations because a fire had broken out roused Mark J. Ormesher from his stateroom on the Grandeur of the Seas early Monday.
Ormesher said in an email to The Associated Press that immediately after the captain’s announcement, his room attendant knocked on the door and told him and his girlfriend to grab their flotation devices, saying it wasn’t a drill.
Orsmesher, a native of England, who lives in Manassas, Va., said he and his girlfriend smelled acrid smoke as they went to their muster station, the ship’s casino. The crew quickly provided instruction.
“This encouraged calm amongst the passengers,” he said. Passengers were required to remain at their stations for four hours, he said, and the captain “provided us as much information as we needed to stay safe.”
Royal Caribbean said that the fire that began at 2:50 a.m. was extinguished about two hours later with no injuries reported. A cause wasn’t immediately known.
Ormesher, who is 25 and on his first cruise, said the air conditioner had been shut off, and as the hours passed and the ship got hot, bottled water was passed around. The crew and passengers remained calm, and helped those who needed it. Crying babies were given formula and held while their parents used the bathrooms.
The ship had sailed from Baltimore on Friday and arrived in Freeport, Bahamas, Monday afternoon.
In Freeport, passenger Andrea Sanders of Washington, D.C., said she slept on the deck with hundreds of other passengers as smoke billowed out of the stern of the ship. “I was terrified with it being my first cruise,” Sanders told The Freeport News as she ate lunch in port.
Royal Caribbean said all 2,224 guests and 796 crew were safe and accounted for.
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