The lack of training of the Newark Fire Department and the family with marine fire duration, a deadly load load fire in the largest port on the east coast in July 2023 amounted to a “leadership failure,” said the head of the National Transportation Security Board.
The Board with Publicly in Washington to present its findings on the interior of the large d’Avorio with Italian flag, which increased for almost a week and resulted in the death of two Newark firefighters.
In addition to highlighting the Newark Fire Department to obtain criticism, the Board also went on when the load chargers used a jeep that was not designed for such work to push vehicles to their position.
He also discovered that a carbon dioxide fire suppression system was ineffective because a large hydraulic because he had to close to work properly and could only be closed from the inside, where the fire was furious in narrow conditions, with parked vehicles. Vehicles
“I hope that the leadership of the Newark Fire Department is listening. This is not just a failure of communication. This was a failure of leadership. That is what it was,” said NTSB Chairerson Homendy.
The Board investigators said the department leaders “exposed firefighters to unnecessary risk,” the first to respond were not familiar enough with the fight against marine fires and that the department lacked a fire control plan for the ship.
“The staff feels that the Newark Fire Division, which responds to land firefighters should not have gone to space,” said researcher Bart Barnum on Tuesday.
The need for more training, said Barnum, was his main food of the accident.
“You have to be properly trained when you respond to a marine vessel fire,” he said. “In this particular case, if they had been, they should never have used inside.”
In a statement, the mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, and the director of Public Security Emanuel Miranda praised the courage of the Firefighters.
They also said that all firefighters who are not in long -term medical license and 540 of 600 firefighters were certified in “maritime fire awareness training.”
“The events that occurred have informed everyone or our whole fire fighting force,” added Baraka and Miranda.
A comment was left for a message that seeks in Ports America, the company that supervises load operations in the port.
The fire turned on when the ship was loading with approximately 920 vehicles used mainly for Western Africa.
Port workers were using a Wrangler jeep to push vehicles that are not transmitted to the ship when a cozy listened to “Clunning noises” and another operator reported having seen “fire balls in flames dripping” of the jeep, according to the Board.
The Jeep had pushed another 37 vehicles on board by then, the researchers said.
Federal rules require that any vehicle used to push other vehicles to a ship meets the standards for such work.
The JEEP did not comply with that standard of occupational health and safety administration and was striving beyond their capacity, said the Board researchers.
“Maybe it was an easily available vehicle,” said a researcher on Tuesday. “Maybe Osha’s requirements that could not be used that way, just speculating.”
The fire began on cover 10 of the 12 cubes ship, the researchers said, and the ship’s crew had activated the carbon dioxide suppression system, but required that the exterior doors of the ship be closed to operate effective.
Because in the upper cover it could not be closed, except from inside the ship, it remained open, according to the presentation of the board.
Newark’s firefighters responded quickly, and lost inside the ship, the board said, when the dark smoke seized the sky.
“We cannot find our departure,” said the Board that a firefighter transmitted. “We are lost.”
Newark Firefighters Augusto “Augie” justou and wayne “Bear” Brooks Jr. were killed.
Fire extinction ships finally criticized water cannons on the ship for days to extinguish the fire.
The members of the Board noticed that the relatives of the fallen firefighters were present at the meeting and expressed condolences.
The New York Port Authority and New Jersey, which operates the port of Newark, is based on local firefighters departments to help with fires, since it is not a fire fighting agency.
The authorities previously refused to respond to firefighters who should get Harm’s path to take out the fire when they did not seem to be at risk, with the 28 members of the ship’s crew safe and accounted for.
Fritz Frage, who was Newark’s public security director at that time, said the city authority and Port Ports have continuous conversations about training.
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