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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Emergency personnel evacuated nearly 900 passengers from a Staten Island Ferry vessel Thursday evening following a fire in the ship’s engine room. The New York City Fire Department ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — City officials hailed the Staten Island Ferry crew for its quick action containing the flames and facilitating the evacuation of more than 800 passengers after a fire erupted in ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Photos that a source shared with the Advance/SILive.com show damage a Staten Island ferryboat suffered after a Thursday evening fire. The source asked to only be referred to as ...

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 ...

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 ...