Hundreds of passengers had to be evacuated off a Staten Island Ferry vessel after a fire broke out in the craft's engine room, according to officials. The FDNY said units responded to a call just ...

Five people were injured after a ferry carrying 667 passengers had a fire in its engine room Charmaine Patterson is an Associate Editor at PEOPLE. She first began working at PEOPLE in 2021 as a ...

FILE - People board the Staten Island Ferry boat Sandy Ground in the Whitehall Terminal, Aug. 4, 2022, in New York. Emergency personnel evacuated nearly 900 passengers from the ferry vessel Thursday ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It’s been nearly a year since an engine room fire broke out onboard the brand new Sandy Ground Staten Island Ferry vessel, which was immediately pulled from service and has yet ...

Approximately 868 passengers and 16 crew members were on board at the time of the fire. All of the passengers were ferried to St. George Terminal, according to the Coast Guard The cause of the fire is ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly 900 passengers and crew members were evacuated from a ferry bound for Staten Island from Manhattan after the vessel’s engine room caught fire and billowed smoke over the upper ...