What happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n

During burning of sludge in the vessel incinerator, there was a high exhaust gas temperature alarm.  Smoke appeared from the incinerator exhaust gas manifold, followed by a fire inside the exhaust pipe.<\/p>\n

19:34: the alarm sounded, and the crew mustered.  The vessel course was altered to prevent the spread of smoke.  Boundary cooling of the funnel was started; the fire team entered the incinerator room with extinguishers to fight the fire but were unable to extinguish it.<\/p>\n

19:41: the fire team left the incinerator room and sealed the door.  Minutes later, the sprinkler system for the incinerator room was activated.<\/p>\n

20:01: the fire extinguished and the sprinkler system was stopped.<\/p>\n

Smoke and high temperatures remained for over an hour; boundary cooling continued until the situation was stabilized at around 21:00.  A fire watch was maintained until midnight.  There were no injuries but there was some damage to the equipment in the incinerator room.<\/p>\n