SEATTLE — Coast Guard crews have escorted the Victoria Clipper passenger ferry in to Seattle Thursday night after an electrical fire was reported aboard the vessel on its trip from Victoria, British Columbia, to Seattle.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Katelyn Shearer says no injuries were reported and ferry crew members extinguished the fire. Shearer says the Victoria Clipper was reported to be carrying 223 passengers. It docked safely in Seattle at about 9 p.m. Thursday.
Shearer says the ferry’s crew “acted quickly and professionally.”
A spokesman for Clipper Vacations was not immediately reachable for comment late Thursday.
Shearer says the fire started Thursday evening while the ferry was off Port Townsend on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. She says the fire was not in a passenger area, but in an area housing the electrical panel that operates a mechanism used to raise and lower the anchor on the front of the ship.
The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat and a helicopter crew.
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