Watch as fire breaks out on cruise ship near Bahamas after suspected lightning strike

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A fire has broken out on a cruise ship after witnesses reported a possible lightning strike. The Carnival Cruise ship was on its voyage in the Bahamas when it was in between bouts of rain.

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00:00 [ __ ] holy crap that is not good why is our tail on fire that's not good y'all

00:08 as we're standing out here on our balcony with stormy and we're on fire

00:28 she's a-blowing folks she's a-blowing you might have noticed that we turned the vessel towards

00:34 the heavy rain in the area to maximize the efforts to put out the flames eyewitnesses reported the

00:41 possibility of a lightning strike and that is being investigated but cannot yet be confirmed

00:47 only essential safety personnel should be on the open decks there are no injuries and we want to

00:54 keep it that way please remain away from balconies and open decks the port side portion of the funnel

01:01 has fallen onto deck 10 and the fire response is putting out the flames this situation has not

01:07 impacted any operational systems on the ship and we will continue to update you as we know more

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