The rescue team went to the load fire site in Alaska

A rescue team is expected to arrive at the beginning of next week at the scene of a cargo ship that transported around 3,000 vehicles to Mexico when it caught fire in waters on the Aleutiana Island of Alaska.

A tugboat with salvage specialists and special equipment is expected to reach the morning location around Monday, the ship’s management company, Zodiac Maritime, with London headquarters, said Thursday. The crew will evaluate the condition of the ship, and a separate tugboat with fire extinguishing and trailer capabilities of the ocean is being organized, the company said in its statement. Meanwhile, officials are using satellite connected systems aboard the ship to monitor it.

The ship remained afloat until Thursday morning, and the images gathered by the United States Coast Guard showed that it was still “burning with smoke emanating,” according to the statement.

The Coast Guard has said that he received an anguish alert around 3:15 pm local time on Tuesday on a fire aboard Morning Midas, which was approximately 300 miles (490 kilometers) southwest of Adak Island. The ship transported around 70 completely electric and about 680 hybrid vehicles, said the Coast Guard, and pointed out that the information was preliminary.

Adak is about 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) west of Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska.

All 22 members of the Midas in the morning crew were not injured. They were evacuated in a lifeboat and a nearby merchant ship rescued them. They remained aboard the rescue ship on Thursday, according to Zodiac Maritime.

The 600 -foot (183 meters) Midas morning was built in 2006 and navigates under a flag of Liberia. The car carrier and trucks left Yantai, China, on May 26, according to the marinetrampic.com industry site. He was heading to an important Pacific port in Mexico.

A Dutch Security Board in a recent report asked to improve the emergency response on the shipping routes of the North Sea after a 2023 mortal fire aboard a freighter that transported 3,000 cars, including almost 500 electric vehicles, from Germany to Singapore.

A person was killed and other wounds in the fire, which burned out of control for a week. That ship was finally towed to a port of the Netherlands for the rescue.