a shelter in place is in effect
for Northeast Tacoma Browns poit
and Dash point neighborhoods.
It's due to this vessel fire.
You can see it's been burning
for the majority of the day.
The Kodiak Enterprise has been
on fire and smoldering for
just about 24 hours.
Here is where the layout is
just north of Tacoma proper,
the high bows waterway.
You can see it's just
South of the dash. Brown
and Northeast Tacoma neighborho.
The Coast Guard is asking you to
stay inside because all of the
smoke that this fire is produci.
We have team coverage for you tonight.
Meteorologist Leah Pizzetti is tracking
air movement over the fire right now.
But let's start things off
with King Five's Maddie White.
Live in Tacoma with the latest Maddie.
Sebastian we are smelling it
strongly here in Northeast Taco,
but what we're seeing is an
even more stunning spectacle.
Check out the smoke pouring
out of this Trident.
Seafoods boat authorities say
no one was hurt. The fire was quickly
spotted and reported yesterday so the crew
on board was able to safely evacuate.
Now, to ensure the safety of
the public, the city of Tacoma
Fire Department this
afternoon issued a temporary
shelter in place order for
Northeast Tacoma Browns point
and Dash point neighborhoods.
People within one mile of this .
Now people in these areas should remain
indoors and limit exposure to s.
A smaller boat is here,
you might see that attempting to fight the
fire by providing cooling spray to the.
Career of the fishing boat.
Now authorities say the fire started in
the boat's galley a day and a half ago.
So we asked about the
challenges fire crews are facing
or what are. The challenges come
with the fact that you're fightg
a fire on a vessel and your typl
means of putting out a fire,
which include adding water to i,
also have some issues for vessel stability.
So if it vessel comes unstable,
that creates a situation where
the vessel could theoretically
either sink or capsize at the p,
which is what we're trying to a.
So we can make sure that we avoid any
discharge into the marine environment.
There are no reported signs of
maritime pollution at this time.
The vessel is reported to have n
estimated 55,000 gallons of die,
19,000 thousand pounds of freon on board.
And while we have heard a couple loud bangs
since we've been out here,
the Coast Guard's assured us thy
have no reason to believe there
will be any sort of explosion,
as they say that the fire is bug
on a different deck than the dil
is located for now, reporting
live in Northeast Tacoma.
I'm Maddie White, KING5 news. Me
White, thank you. Let's take one
more look over downtown Tacoma .
Again, that fire is behind a shelter in
place order for several neighborhoods.
Their team coverage continues nw
with meteorologist Leah Pizzetti
to talk about how this air movet
could be impacting all that smoe
coming out of that fire. Leah.
Right, Sebastian. So, yeah,
anytime we see one of these fir,
we want to know where is
that smoke going to go?
Let me show a wide look at what we're seeing
with our upper air level patterns right now.
So we do see this atmospheric r.
That's a push. Moisture toward Western
Washington right now that's creg
what we would call onshore flow.
So it's pushing fresh coastal ar
toward the West Coast and windse
pretty strong as of this evenin.
We can see these arrows indicating that
kind of southwest flow flowing from the
coast from the southwest toward Puget Sound.
So that is going to push that air up in
the case of Tacoma toward Seattle as of
now into our overnight hours, these winds.
Will be calming down though.
So into this evening we are
seeing pretty strong winds aroud
that 3035 mile per hour range.
But into overnight it's actually
going to calm down South.
It will probably be pretty stagnant overnight
tonight into tomorrow in the following days.
So that same pattern is going to pick up,
pushing that air toward central sound.
So definitely something we'll
stay on top of and keep an eye
on where that smoke is heading,
Sebastian.