This story was corrected to reflect that company says 1,200 vehicles were on board, not 5,000 as the mayor said. The NTSB has authority to investigate maritime accidents. The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday that it will investigate the ship fire, but the Coast Guard is taking the lead, said Jennifer Gabris, an NTSB spokeswoman. This is something that I as a chief never want to face, but we have to be there, we have to be strong for the family at this point.” We love each other and we protect each other. “Although this is a difficult fire, a different type of fire, they’re still willing to put themselves on the line for others,” the chief said. Two firefighters were killed when they became trapped while battling a fire that broke out Wednesday night aboard a cargo ship at Port Newark, authorities said. He said they trained on ships before, but it was a vessel that had compartments and living quarters, not a ship like this. Shipboard firefighting is a unique skill and Newark firefighters don’t commonly face this kind of fire, Jackson said. IV and Soviet T-34 were rearmed in 1942 with longer-barreled, higher-velocity guns soon afterward these began to be displaced by more powerfully armed tanks. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka called it “tragic for all firefighters who know what it means to go in a burning structure in a danger that you are going to have to experience when you do so.”
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