Fire on a freight ship in Frankfurt
Fire through cold – this is how the following message can be summarized. Yesterday, the skipper of a freight ship wanted to heat the hydraulic oil of the ship’s own truck-mounted crane with a headlight in the upper outer port of the Griesheim lock, which had become viscous due to the cold of minus five degrees. Investigations revealed that “the unfortunate alignment of the headlight apparently caused a cable drum, a cable duct, a ladder and the headlight itself to catch fire,” reports the police. Although the 34-year-old skipper was able to quickly extinguish the flames himself, he used them to trigger a boat operation by the Frankfurt fire brigade and the water police. According to the police, shipping on the Main was blocked for 30 minutes. There were no injuries. The ship was finally able to move on.
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