The Newark hearth division’s lack of coaching and familiarity with marine firefighting throughout a lethal cargo ship hearth on the East Coast’s largest port in July 2023 amounted to a “failure of leadership,” the pinnacle of the Nationwide Transportation Security Board stated Tuesday. The board met publicly in Washington to unveil its findings concerning the inferno contained in the Italian-flagged Grande Costa D’Avorio, which smoldered for practically every week and resulted within the deaths of two Newark firefighters. Along with singling out Newark’s hearth division for criticism, the board additionally discovered that the fireplace ignited when cargo loaders used a…
