Tuesday 22/02/22
The Felicity Ace, a specialist cargo ship carrying more than 4000 cars, caught alight near the Azores on Wednesday 16th Feb. Cars aboard the vessel, include Audis, Bentleys, and Porsches, various ones containing lithium-ion batteries. These batteries are “keeping the fire alive,” according to a captain of the nearby Faial Island port, João Mendes Cabeças. Cabeças also noted that special equipment needed to extinguish the battery fire is en route.
