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Barnes said after the fire broke out, passengers were told to remain in their cabins until about 5:40 p.m. This was his 18th Carnival Cruise trip. “This was the most interesting one,” he said.

A fire broke out aboard the Carnival Freedom cruise ship about 20 miles away from Eleuthera Island, Bahamas, on March 23, the cruise line announced. Courtesy: @breezebreeze via Storyful.

Barnes said after the fire broke out, passengers were told to remain in their cabins until about 5:40 p.m. This was his 18th Carnival Cruise trip. “This was the most interesting one,” he said.

The Carnival Freedom cruise trips originally scheduled to depart from Port Canaveral, Florida, on March 25 and March 29 have been canceled to allow “immediate repair to stabilize the funnel ...