$16 Million Settlement Reached In 2020 Blount Island Ship Fire That Injured 11 Firefighters

A law firm announced Monday that it has reached a settlement exceeding over $16 million in a lawsuit filed on behalf of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department, stemming from a 2020 ship fire incident on Blount Island that injured 11 firefighters.

On June 4, 2020, hundreds of firefighters responded to the ship called the ‘Hoegh Xiamen,’ a Norway car carrier ship, after a fire broke out. “Communication was impossible because the captain and crew only spoke Chinese,” the law firm, Pajcic & Pajcic said in a news release.

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