One of the fire investigators, who had been standing by an open door in the living room, escaped moments before the oxygen-starved fire roared out of the room into the hallway a fireball that caused the corridor to go quickly into flashover as well, propelling the fire out the front door and onto the porch.
An engine-room fire paralyzed the ship early Sunday, leaving it adrift in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation into the cause of the engine room fire.
For example, we had a laundry room fire one night when I was home alone with our two dogs and cat.
An engine room fire left the cruise ship crippled and adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4, 200 people aboard.
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In 2010, the Carnival's cruise ship Splendor lost power after an engine room fire, leaving it drifting off the Pacific coast of Mexico.
Last month, an engine room fire left the Carnival Triumph crippled and adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4, 200 people aboard.
The Noble Discoverer dragged its anchor and suffered an engine-room fire.
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That was followed less than two months later by an engine-room fire aboard the Costa Allegra, another Costa Crociere ship, which left it adrift and without power in the Indian Ocean.
In February this year, passengers were forced to spend nearly five days in the Gulf of Mexico aboard a stranded ship operated by Royal Caribbean rival Carnival after the ship was disabled by an engine-room fire.
In February this year, an engine room fire left the Carnival Triumph adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, with passengers reporting overflowing toilets and human waste running down the walls in some parts of the ship.
In the biggest high-profile incident in the U.S. in recent years, more than 3, 000 passengers aboard the Carnival Splendor were towed to shore in 2010 by a Mexican tugboat after an engine-room fire cut off the ship's electricity.
The explosion comes two months after the 900-foot-long Triumph was towed to Mobile after becoming disabled on the Gulf during a cruise by an engine room fire, leaving thousands of passengers to endure cold food, unsanitary conditions and power outages for several days.
The explosion comes two months after the 900-foot-long Carnival Triumph was towed to Mobile after becoming disabled on the Gulf during a cruise by an engine room fire, leaving thousands of passengers to endure cold food, unsanitary conditions and power outages for several days.
Jade Spence, in whose flat the fire started, recalled seeing "thick black smoke" and a part of her room on fire.
The boy was transported to the emergency room by the fire department, then pronouncd dead by an emergency room doctor, she said.
She was badly burnt in a fire in the smoking room of Wellgreen House on Wednesday.
"It said there was a small fire in the engine room, but everybody's fine, " Jackson said.
But, I was so thankful for that sensitive smoke detector when we had the fire in our laundry room!!!!
All staff and patients at Crawley Hospital were safely evacuated after the fire in a store room on the Comet ward.
On Tuesday all staff and patients at Crawley Hospital had to be evacuated after the fire in a store room on the Comet ward.
"We put down our roots, literally and figuratively, " Leanne Baum said, bouncing her curly-haired daughter on her hip before a roaring fire in her family room.
The NTSB found that a fire on board the Liberian-registered Ecstasy, operated by Carnival, had been caused by a fire in the laundry room sparked by unauthorized welding.
It wasn't a fancy piece of wood, just a regular woodpile log, the kind you might put in your stove or fireplace to stoke a fire and heat your room.
Items are now housed in a temperature and humidity-controlled strong-room protected by an inert gas fire protection system, which would douse the room in gas to kill flames instead of using water.
There are three generators in the engine room where the fire broke out.
Based on an inspection Thursday of the engine room, the fire did not appear to have been large, Cuty said.
Cuty's team remains on board the ship cataloging the location of everything in the engine room where the fire started.
When I arrived at her house this afternoon, her first priority was to introduce me to her mother, who was sitting by the fire in an upstairs drawing room.
Taking out the control room by starting a fire with a candle at Browns Ferry.
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