The Associated Press
SEATTLE — Coast Guard crews escorted the Victoria Clipper passenger ferry in to Seattle on Thursday night after an electrical fire was reported aboard the vessel while it was off Port Townsend.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Katelyn Shearer said no injuries were reported and ferry crew members extinguished the fire.
Shearer said the Victoria Clipper was reported to be carrying 223 passengers as it traveled from Victoria to Seattle. It docked safely in Seattle at about 9 p.m. Thursday.
Shearer says the ferry’s crew “acted quickly and professionally.”
A spokesman for Clipper Vacations was not immediately reachable for comment late Thursday.
Shearer said the fire was not in a passenger area, but in an area housing the electrical panel that operates a mechanism used to raise and lower the anchor on the front of the ship.
The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat and a helicopter crew.
