Fire Hits Luxury Liner, Days After Grounding
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PHILADELPHIA — Someone set a fire early Friday in a storage room on the luxury liner Regent Star, five days after the ship ran aground in Delaware Bay because of another fire that cut off power, authorities said.
No passengers were aboard and no injuries were reported in the blaze, which was controlled within 90 minutes, a firefighter said.
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