Passengers Evacuated From Electric Tourist Boat - Norway's News in English — www.newsinenglish.no

Passengers evacuated from electric tourist boat - Norway's News in English — www.newsinenglish.no

More than 300 tourists on board one of Norway’s relatively new electric tourist boats had to be evacuated Tuesday afternoon, after smoke started billowing from a battery room. The cause of the fire that generated all the smoke remained unclear. State broadcaster NRK reported that the boat, called Future of the Fjords, was sailing in […] The post Passengers evacuated from electric tourist boat appeared first on Norway's News in English — www.news…

Romsdals Budstik with the online newspaper Rbnett is based in Molde and is the local newspaper for Romsdal with the municipalities of Molde, Hustadvika, Aukra, Gjemnes, Vestnes and Rauma.

310 tourists were evacuated from the all-electric tourist boat "Future of the Fjords" on the Aurlandsfjord this afternoon. The main rescue center (HRS) was notified of the incident at 3:33 p.m. The smoke came from a battery room on board. No one was injured in the incident. The vessel docked at Onstad, and an evacuation was initiated. Just before 4:00 p.m. everyone was evacuated. The fire department sent in smoke divers and was able to report th…

Smoke is said to have been coming from the battery compartment on the boat.