The Newark fire department’s lack of training and familiarity with marine firefighting during a deadly cargo ship fire at the East Coast’s largest port in July 2023 amounted to a “failure of leadership,” the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
The board met publicly in Washington to unveil its findings about the inferno inside the Italian-flagged Grande Costa D’Avorio, which smoldered for nearly a week and resulted in the deaths of two Newark firefighters.
