Many aboard the Caribbean Fantasy ship required medical care, though there were no reported fatalities. In 2016, more than 500 passengers and crew were evacuated from a burning ship about a mile off Puerto Rico’s north coast. The Carnival Freedom ship was in Grand Turk on a five-day cruise when a fire inside the ships funnel started, according to a press release from Carnival. While cruise ship fires are not common, they have occurred before. Upon docking, all infected passengers were moved to area hotels for isolation. Carnival didn’t say how many of the approximately 2,100 passengers aboard were infected. Carnival said Thursday morning while in port at Grand Turk, Carnival Freedom’s emergency response team quickly activated and put out a fire inside the ship’s funnel. Last month, passengers on a Carnival cruise from Miami to Seattle were forced to quarantine after people onboard tested positive for COVID-19. ET, Carnival Cruise Line verified that a fire broke out in the funnel of its Carnival Freedom ship while it was in Grand Turk. All guests impacted by the changes in upcoming trips have been notified. A fire has broken out on the Carnival Freedom while the vessel was docking in the port of Grand Turk this morning. In a statement shared online at 8:45 a.m. The Freedom ship will be taken to Freeport for a “repair to the funnel,” Carnival said. The Conquest’s next trip, scheduled to depart from Miami on Friday, has been canceled, as was the Freedom’s next trip, scheduled to begin Saturday. They are expected to arrive in Port Canaveral on Monday. Another ship, the Carnival Conquest, will travel from Miami to pick everyone up from Grand Turk on Saturday. The ship had 2,504 guests and 972 crew onboard, Carnival said. Social media posts show flames spewing from the funnel of the ship and black smoke billowing in the air. The Freedom is on fire in Port at #GrandTurk #Carnival /7GgoWLG2Tc Carnival is continuing to assess the situation. The incident has been confirmed by John Heald, Brand Ambassador and senior cruise director of Carnival Cruise Lines, on social media. The ship’s guests were cleared by local authorities to go ashore. Cruise groups on social media filled with photos of Carnival Cruiselines’ famous funnel on fire aboard the Carnival Freedom while docked in Grand Turk on May 26, 2022. The Carnival Freedom ship was in Grand Turk on a five-day cruise when a fire inside the ship’s funnel started, according to a press release from Carnival.Ĭarnival says the fire was quickly extinguished by emergency response teams, and that all guests and crew are safe. Twitter photo courtesy of Brian H.Ī Carnival cruise ship that set sail from Port Canaveral in Florida caught fire on Thursday. This gives the ship a classic look similar to what Carnival's original ships the Mardi Gras, Festivale, and Carnivale had back in the 1970's.The Carnival cruise ship Freedom’s funnel on fire. The iconic Carnival funnel was not fully repaired during this time out of service and instead the funnel will be have more of a vertical appearance until whale tail sides are re-added later. A Carnival Cruise Line ship will be taken to Freeport in the Bahamas after sustaining a fire to its funnel on Thursday while docked in Turks and Caicos. Yesterday Carnival Cruise Line announced the Carnival Freedom's funnel technical repair was complete and the ship is on-track to sail from Port Canaveral, Florida on Jwith guests. After a fire broke out on board the Carnival Freedom on Thursday morning while docked in Grand Turk, Carnival Cruise Line has decided to use another ship to assist. The Carnival Freedom's May 28, June 2, and June 6 cruises were all cancelled as the ship sailed to Freeport, Bahamas for repairs. As TradeWinds has reported, the blaze erupted off Grand Turk in one of two openings to the funnel to the 2,980-berth Carnival Freedom (built 2007), sending black smoke billowing into the sky. Carnival Cruise Line has canceled two more sailings out of Port Canaveral on the Carnival Freedom because of the need to repair fire damage on the ship that occurred Thursday in Grand Turk. Guests onboard the affected cruise stayed in Grand Turk on the Carnival Freedom until the Carnival Conquest was sent over to transport guests back to Port Canaveral. Carnival Cruise Line late Thursday canceled a scheduled Saturday sailing of the Carnival Freedom out of Port Canaveral, after the ship sustained fire damage during a port-of-call stop in.

Over two weeks ago, the Carnival Freedom suffered a funnel fire while docked in Grand Turk. The Carnival Freedom will resume cruises today out of Port Canaveral following the ship's funnel fire.

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