Sixteen people had been moved out of a burning container ship within Canada’s Pacific coast on Saturday, October 23, 2021.
According to the officials the ZIm KIngston ship which was on the way to Vancouver City is discharging toxic gas although they said that there is no hazardous risk for people on land.
Based on the reports from the CBC news, response vessels exhausted the whole night cooling the outer part of the ship using water but could not drench the flames instantly due to the chemicals.
“The container ship is on fire and spewing toxic gas” stated the Canadian coast guard and added that containers had been damaged by its flames.
The coast guard also said that there is presently no safety risk for those people on shore nonetheless the situation wil; be pursued to be surveilled.
Moreover the coast guard had revealed that the ship was transporting more that 52,000 kilograms of chemicals placed on the two containers that were set on fire.