22 crew members safe after fire on cargo ship carrying electric vehicles off Alaska

All unit members are harmless aft a occurrence broke retired aboard a cargo vessel southbound of Alaska's Adak Island

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The unit of a cargo vessel carrying 3,000 vehicles to Mexico, including 800 electrical vehicles, abandoned vessel aft they could not power a occurrence successful waters disconnected Alaska's Aleutian land chain.

Smoke was initially seen coming from the platform loaded with electrical vehicles Tuesday, according to a Wednesday connection from the ship’s absorption company, London-based Zodiac Maritime.

There were nary reported injuries among the 22 unit members of the Morning Midas.

Crew members abandoned vessel and were aboriginal transferred from lifeboats to a adjacent merchant vas successful the North Pacific Ocean, astir 300 miles (485 kilometers) southwest of Adak Island successful Alaska’s Aleutian chain. Adak is astir 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) westbound of Anchorage, the state's largest city.

The unit initiated exigency firefighting procedures with the ship's onboard occurrence suppression system, but they couldn’t bring the flames nether control.

“The applicable authorities person been notified, and we are moving intimately with exigency responders with a tug being deployed to enactment salvage and firefighting operations,” a connection from the absorption institution said. “Our priorities are to guarantee the continued information of the unit and support the marine environment.”

The U.S. Coast Guard said it is sending aerial crews to Adak and a vessel to the area.

The 600-foot (183-meter) Morning Midas, a car and motortruck carrier, was built successful 2006 and sails nether a Liberian flag. The cars were being shipped to Mexico's Pacific larboard of Lázaro Cárdenas.

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