There was a serene sunrise as the Carnival Freedom slipped into Port Canaveral on Monday. It all looked so beautiful at first, until the charred exhaust funnel came into view.
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On Saturday, the ship had caught on fire while sailing to the Bahamas. Passengers safely deboarded at Port Canaveral Monday morning, but many say the experience was confusing and scary.
“We were pretty shocked, I think is the biggest reaction,” passenger Amber Wainwright said.
One passenger was on the deck when the blaze broke out and got the whole thing on video.
Wainwright says she was about to pick up her daughter from the kid’s club when the news started traveling.
“Other parents ran up shouting that there was a fire, and so we were like, OK, well, maybe not because you never really know, nobody had announced anything,” Wainwright said.
Meanwhile, for her daughter, things were getting real. She said she was hanging out with her friends when, all of a sudden, the teachers were telling everyone to line up.
Cautioned by the crew to stay in their cabins, some say they didn’t know the ship was on fire until fellow passengers started sharing cell phone video.
“When this guy came around and had his cellphone and had a picture of it, it showed the flames coming out of the funnel,” passenger Lu Kingsbury said, adding that that’s when he thought about how bad this could actually be.
The cruise line says the fire was quickly contained.
The cause of the fire has still not been confirmed. However, some passengers say they heard a loud thunder boom and thought it could have possibly been lightning.
Originally, the cruise line had said they did not think the fire would affect any future cruises. But after a technical team assessed the ship in Freeport over the weekend, Carnival announced it was canceling cruises scheduled for Monday and Friday from Port Canaveral.
Carnival says passengers on this voyage will get a full refund, and so will those scheduled to set sail this week.
After the ship is repaired, passengers will have another chance to set sail on Freedom. That is, if the storm settles from their past experience.
This is the second time this particular Carnival ship has caught on fire. During Saturday’s fire, two firefighters were treated for minor smoke inhalation.
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