Emergency today on Quantum class ship?

[Nolefan95]

Anyone hear anything. Saw a facebook post that says there is a fire and every employee was sent to muster stations? 

[smokeybandit]

Maybe just a drill, which they do about every port stop?

[Nolefan95]

This didn't appear to be a drill but maybe it is. A women was crying for her kids and the fire wall was down in the royal esplanade.

[Nolefan95]

Its on an Alaskan cruise. Not sure which quantum class is in Alaska now. 

[robmtx]

35 minutes ago, Nolefan95 said:

Its on an Alaskan cruise. Not sure which quantum class is in Alaska now. 

Ovation and Quantum are both there.

[robmtx]

Just now, robmtx said:

Ovation and Quantum are both there.

 

Ovation is turn around in Seattle today.

Quantum is docked in Juneau.

[reallyitsmema]

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[shelf2812]

There was a small fire in an engine casing on Quantum of the Seas last night. It was contained pretty quickly, but there was a lot of panic at first. 
 

 

[chengkp75]

1 hour ago, Nolefan95 said:

Anyone hear anything. Saw a facebook post that says there is a fire and every employee was sent to muster stations? 

Typically, unless they sound the "passenger muster" alarm, not every crew member will respond to an emergency.  Initially, it will be a "code bravo" emergency, and only those assigned "code bravo" duties will respond.  For a fire, probably only 75-80 are assigned to respond.  This includes deck and engine officers, fire teams, security teams, and medical teams.  The remaining crew will continue with their normal duties until the "passenger muster" signal is given (which is actually the "fire and general emergency" alarm)

[robmtx]

9 minutes ago, shelf2812 said:

There was a small fire in an engine casing on Quantum of the Seas last night. It was contained pretty quickly, but there was a lot of panic at first. 
 

 

Quantum is just not having a good summer. Poor girl...

[cruise1957]

There was a fire on one of our cruises, forget which one. We were in the middle of a show, no one panicked luckily. turns out it was in the incinerator somehow, fire suppression had it out before anyone got in there according to the announcement from the captain. They were going to cancel the show and redo it the next night but everyone went back to the theater to they resumed the show. I didn't see anyone panicking at all, it was all very calm. 

 

Now on a flight home from San Juan it was another story entirely. Out flight had a 300 foot drop with a 30 degree tilt, even the flight crew looked unnerved.

 

Edited September 2, 2022 by cruise1957

[Anton]

From a book of the face group posting from a passenger last night:  "just announced code bravo and kilo and implement plan 39, this is not a drill"  "some aft cabins were evacuated as a precaution" "Wonderland was evacuated and I heard an alarm"  "guests in cabins were required to stay there"  "captain just announced final fire checks complete" 

 

Guest said total time of the event was about one hour.  That's all I know and I don't know what plan 39 is. 

[chengkp75]

Just now, Anton said:

From a book of the face group posting from a passenger last night:  "just announced code bravo and kilo and implement plan 39, this is not a drill"  "some aft cabins were evacuated as a precaution" "Wonderland was evacuated and I heard an alarm"  "guests in cabins were required to stay there"  "captain just announced final fire checks complete" 

 

Guest said total time of the event was about one hour.  That's all I know and I don't know what plan 39 is. 

Virtually every space on a ship has a "fire plan" assigned to it.  All similar spaces will use the same plan (like all passenger cabins).  "Plan 39" referred to the plan in the ship's emergency plan for the space that had a fire.  This allows the On Scene Commander, and all team leaders to know what their responsibilities are, and their initial responses.  One hour from initial alarm to "all secure" is pretty good.  The fire was likely out long before this hour, but shipboard response requires setting "reflash watches" both in the space involved, and the surrounding spaces, to ensure that no hot spot reignites a fire.  These last 20-30 minutes, before the On Scene will declare the fire "out" (as opposed to "extinguished").

[DaKahuna]

We are aboard Quantum now.  Last night's fire was in the engine room and was quickly and professionally contained and extinguished by the crew. 

 

As a precautionary measure, decks 0 - 6 after were closed off from the rest of the ship.  I was in the Casino on Deck 3 when the first announcement was made.  Nothing changed.  When  "Kilo" was announced, they started closing down the casio but there as no panic that I witnessed.  The croupier simply colored up my chips and I went to the cashier's cage and cashed out.  

 

When they closed off the aft end of the ship, I walked up the stairs to the Schooner Bar and took a seat.  The bar was obviously crowded, as well as the surrounding area, but the bar remained opened. 

 

In his post above, @chengkp75 pretty much laid out exactly what happened.  My wife was in our cabin on deck 12 and simply remained there the whole time.   

 

[Anton]

18 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

Virtually every space on a ship has a "fire plan" assigned to it.  All similar spaces will use the same plan (like all passenger cabins).  "Plan 39" referred to the plan in the ship's emergency plan for the space that had a fire.  This allows the On Scene Commander, and all team leaders to know what their responsibilities are, and their initial responses.  One hour from initial alarm to "all secure" is pretty good.  The fire was likely out long before this hour, but shipboard response requires setting "reflash watches" both in the space involved, and the surrounding spaces, to ensure that no hot spot reignites a fire.  These last 20-30 minutes, before the On Scene will declare the fire "out" (as opposed to "extinguished").

That sounds like the same actions we used both in the Navy and in commercial nuclear power for fires, which makes sense.

[chengkp75]

39 minutes ago, cruise1957 said:

turns out it was in the incinerator somehow, fire suppression had it out before anyone got in there according to the announcement from the captain.

Incinerator fires are some of the most common on cruise ships.  All the paper and cardboard is thrown into shredders, which shred everything, and then it goes into a storage silo that can hold about 6-7 cubic meters of trash.  Once the ship sails in the evening, the incinerator is started, and the trash is fed from the silo into the incinerator.  The problem comes when the crew are not meticulous in sorting the trash, and a metal object (I've seen a fire started by an AA battery) goes through the shredder, and creates a spark.  This spark ignites some trash in the silo, but it is quickly covered by more trash, and so just remains a smolder, until the incinerator starts to take trash from the silo, and the smolder gets to the surface and ignites (typically in the evening).  The silo has steam smothering to take down the fire.

[Jimbo]

9 minutes ago, DaKahuna said:

We are aboard Quantum now.  Last night's fire was in the engine room and was quickly and professionally contained and extinguished by the crew. 

 

As a precautionary measure, decks 0 - 6 after were closed off from the rest of the ship.  I was in the Casino on Deck 3 when the first announcement was made.  Nothing changed.  When  "Kilo" was announced, they started closing down the casio but there as no panic that I witnessed.  The croupier simply colored up my chips and I went to the cashier's cage and cashed out.  

 

When they closed off the aft end of the ship, I walked up the stairs to the Schooner Bar and took a seat.  The bar was obviously crowded, as well as the surrounding area, but the bar remained opened. 

 

In his post above, @chengkp75 pretty much laid out exactly what happened.  My wife was in our cabin on deck 12 and simply remained there the whole time.   

 

Everything closes down but the bars stay open..sounds right.........

[kw1816]

4 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

Incinerator fires are some of the most common on cruise ships.

Indeed - Laundry lint being another. Each incident brings more knowledge and understanding, and frequently another round of rules & regulations. Which is no bad thing !

[chengkp75]

2 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

Everything closes down but the bars stay open..sounds right.........

Typically, they will shut down the vertical fire zone where the fire is.  The VFZ is from the keel to the highest point on the ship in that area, between two sets of fire doors.  They will typically close the fire doors for that zone, the elevators in that zone will go to mid-level and shut down (to block a potential "chimney"), and the ventilation for the zone will be shut down.  Everything else, outside that VFZ will remain in operation.

[smokeybandit]

6 minutes ago, Jimbo said:

Everything closes down but the bars stay open..sounds right.........

But did the band keep playing?

[Tucsoncruisers]

John thank you for all of your information. I will be boarding next week and very happy to be onboard.

Since you have spent time in the casino, have you noticed any video poker machines?
Also thank you for your service! Always have respected our service personnel.

[chengkp75]

2 minutes ago, kw1816 said:

Indeed - Laundry lint being another. Each incident brings more knowledge and understanding, and frequently another round of rules & regulations. Which is no bad thing !

Which is why the dryer exhausts have filters cleaned daily, and horizontal runs of ducting are opened, and crawled through to clean them monthly.  They also have steam smothering in the ducts.

[cruise1957]

20 minutes ago, chengkp75 said:

Incinerator fires are some of the most common on cruise ships.  All the paper and cardboard is thrown into shredders, which shred everything, and then it goes into a storage silo that can hold about 6-7 cubic meters of trash.  Once the ship sails in the evening, the incinerator is started, and the trash is fed from the silo into the incinerator.  The problem comes when the crew are not meticulous in sorting the trash, and a metal object (I've seen a fire started by an AA battery) goes through the shredder, and creates a spark.  This spark ignites some trash in the silo, but it is quickly covered by more trash, and so just remains a smolder, until the incinerator starts to take trash from the silo, and the smolder gets to the surface and ignites (typically in the evening).  The silo has steam smothering to take down the fire.

Glad, to say it all worked perfectly on our cruise. It was our first emergency onboard a ship, and it was handled expertly.

 

Also, thank you for your service and all the info you post on these boards it's very helpful.

Edited September 2, 2022 by cruise1957

[Blizzard54]

I have no second thoughts about sailing on the Quantum in 10 days.  I am confidence in Royal's training programs.  I am also confident that if there was an issue that would put the safety of the vessel in question, they would not risk continuing to sail it.   Things happen and that is why they train. 

[DaKahuna]

3 hours ago, Tucsoncruisers said:

John thank you for all of your information. I will be boarding next week and very happy to be onboard.

Since you have spent time in the casino, have you noticed any video poker machines?
Also thank you for your service! Always have respected our service personnel.

 

 Sorry, I have not noticed any video poker machines in the casino.  I'll make it a point to check tonight.