Royal Caribbean Ship Fire

RandomPrincess

RandomPrincess

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I just saw this on CNN.com - Link

No one was badly hurt thankfully.

So what is going on with Carnival? They have had a string of problems the last few years.

EDIT - SORRY THIS IS ROYAL CARIBBEAN - I don't know why I misread the story.

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DISNEY FANTASY

DISNEY FANTASY

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Isnt that RCI not Carnival?- RCI Grandeur of the seas, had a fire on the aft mooring deck, decks 3/4. The fire was put out in 2 hours. Your link shows RCI and not Carnival and they are separate organisations.
 
TDF

TDF

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It is rather scary. It just shows that things can happen to any cruise line. I am impressed in the way RCL is handling things however, I am also impressed on Carnival updating all their systems so hopefully something like this never happens again.
- Justin
 
wdwstateofmind

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When we were on the Fantasy there was a small fire due to one of the dryers getting extremely hot...we slept through the alarms or we deduced they are localized unless the problem gets to a certain level. However, they apparently were able to deal with it without impeding on the voyage...would have been interesting if it escalated (not in a good way) seeing the pre-cruise safety boat and station thing is made into quite the debacle by cast members (at least from what we witnessed)...
 
TDF

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wdwstateofmind said:
When we were on the Fantasy there was a small fire due to one of the dryers getting extremely hot...we slept through the alarms or we deduced they are localized unless the problem gets to a certain level. However, they apparently were able to deal with it without impeding on the voyage...would have been interesting if it escalated (not in a good way) seeing the pre-cruise safety boat and station thing is made into quite the debacle by cast members (at least from what we witnessed)...
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WHOAH… WHAT? I never heard of this… that is quite fascinating. I am sure stuff like this happens all the time, just surprised I never heard of it. Did the general assembly alarm go off… like was anything said, or what?
 
wdwstateofmind

wdwstateofmind

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TDF said:
WHOAH… WHAT? I never heard of this… that is quite fascinating. I am sure stuff like this happens all the time, just surprised I never heard of it. Did the general assembly alarm go off… like was anything said, or what?
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Apparently the fire alarms went off (once again I didn't wake up so I don't know if they are localized...however, I have slept through the house next door burning down) and they made an announcement when it happened...good ole Brent "Your Cruise Director" made multiple announcements starting around 7 AM in the morning (which I was up for) explaining the situation and that the cruise will be going on as expected and then again mid-day and when everyone got back on the ship from port...
 
TDF

TDF

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I would probably sleep through the alarm as well… I swear if I didn’t keep my stateroom door open slightly I wouldn’t hear the safety drill alarm go off.
 
wdwstateofmind

wdwstateofmind

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TDF said:
I would probably sleep through the alarm as well… I swear if I didn’t keep my stateroom door open slightly I wouldn’t hear the safety drill alarm go off.
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I dunno if you could call that a safety drill alarm as it's more of what seems to be a graceful 1950s radio tone...but the drill itself was something...they really need to coordinate with the cast members and find a better way to direct and place people because we found everything a giant mess as cast members contradicted each other one after another...I was consoled by the fact our verandah was right above our boat and if I really had to I could literally hop down...
 
TDF

TDF

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wdwstateofmind said:
I dunno if you could call that a safety drill alarm as it's more of what seems to be a graceful 1950s radio tone...but the drill itself was something...they really need to coordinate with the cast members and find a better way to direct and place people because we found everything a giant mess as cast members contradicted each other one after another...I was consoled by the fact our verandah was right above our boat and if I really had to I could literally hop down...
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Wow… that seems odd, we where in the Walt Disney Theater (Life boat 3… ha I remember that still beat that Tammy!) and our head was very nice and explained everything. We told the guy when walking in our stateroom number and never had an issue. Where were you located for the drill?
 
wdwstateofmind

wdwstateofmind

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TDF said:
Wow… that seems odd, we where in the Walt Disney Theater (Life boat 3… ha I remember that still beat that Tammy!) and our head was very nice and explained everything. We told the guy when walking in our stateroom number and never had an issue. Where were you located for the drill?
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Section K...we were told to stand three different places (one which we were told isn't K only to have the CM finally see it was K) and then asked why we were standing where we were put by everyone under the head...then they placed us in front of a door to which another CM was kind of annoyed we were standing in front of a service door...then they kept asking me to get closer to the 300 lbs woman next to me who took up two lines...then they were like oh, we forgot it has to be height order...afterwards there was no direction as to where to go and a lot of people who had not been on the ship before got stuck in dead ends (you couldn't go up most of the service stairs you went down really throwing off people as to where they even were)...it was just a giant mess for what was suppose to be a security drill
 
TDF

TDF

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wdwstateofmind said:
Section K...we were told to stand three different places (one which we were told isn't K only to have the CM finally see it was K) and then asked why we were standing where we were put by everyone under the head...then they placed us in front of a door to which another CM was kind of annoyed we were standing in front of a service door...then they kept asking me to get closer to the 300 lbs woman next to me who took up two lines...then they were like oh, we forgot it has to be height order...afterwards there was no direction as to where to go and a lot of people who had not been on the ship before got stuck in dead ends (you couldn't go up most of the service stairs you went down really throwing off people as to where they even were)...it was just a giant mess for what was suppose to be a security drill
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Wow. That stinks! I hope you contacted someone on the issue. Imagine if this was a real emergency.
 

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