fire broke out on a royal caribbean cruise ship heading for the bahamas, ending the trip for about 2200 passengers, 800 crew members. the fire was put out just before 5:00 in the morning. royal caribbean says there were no medical emergencies but passengers describing pretty scary moments. erin mcpike has the story. reporter: the entire back end of a massive ship, scorched. more than 2200 passengers aboard a bahamas-bound cruise were roused by a terrifying wake-up call overnight. boats have been lowered, here i am in the life jacket, not a drill, not a drill. i was freaking out. reporter: for the third time this year, mechanical problems caused a major cruise ship to upend a caribbean vacation for thousands of passengers. this time, it was a fire aboard
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fire broke out on a royal caribbean cruise ship heading for the bahamas, ending the trip for about 2200 passengers, 800 crew members. the fire was put out just before 5:00 in the morning. royal caribbean says there were no medical emergencies but passengers describing pretty scary moments. erin mcpike has the story. reporter: the entire back end of a massive ship, scorched. more than 2200 passengers aboard a bahamas-bound cruise were roused by a terrifying wake-up call overnight. boats have been lowered, here i am in the life jacket, not a drill, not a drill. i was freaking out. reporter: for the third time this year, mechanical problems caused a major cruise ship to upend a caribbean vacation for thousands of passengers. this time, it was a fire aboard royal caribbean s grandeur of the seas.
baltimore where those passengers are expected to begin arriving later today. any update from royal caribbean? reporter: yes, carol, the ship is actually based here in baltimore, but it s going to be dry docked in the bahamas so it can undergo repairs. those passengers are going to be on some charter flights. some are already on their way and we expect those passengers will be arriving all day today after what was really a hellish ordeal for them early monday morning. the entire back end of a massive ship scorched. more than 2,200 passengers aboard a bahamas-bound cruise were aroused by a terrifying wakeup call monday morning. the emergency lifeboats have been lowered. we re on deck on 3:00 a.m. in our life jackets. not a drill, not a drill. everyone is freaking out. reporter: for the third time this year, mechanical problems
the entire back end of a massive ship scorched. more than 2200 passengers aboard a bahamas bound cruise were roused by a terrifying wake-up call early monday morning. boats have been lowered around deck around 3:00 a.m. and our life jackets. not a drill. not a joke. everyone is freaking out. reporter: for the third time this year, mechanical problems caused a major cruise ship to upend a caribbean vacation for thousands of passengers. this time it was a fire aboard royal caribbean s grandeur of the seas. passenger katie coleman told cnn it s the most terrifying thing in my life. reporter: in february it was an engine room fire on the carnival triumph shutting down power and the ship s sewage system for days. one month later carnival s dream lost power from a generator failure while in port. and now rival royal caribbean has its own set of problems.