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The Newark fire department’s lack of training and familiarity with marine firefighting during a deadly cargo ship fire at the East Coast’s largest port in July 2023 amounted to a “failure of leadership,” the head of the National Transportation Safety …

The city of Newark is asking a federal court to dismiss negligence and wrongful death claims against it by the families of two firefighters who died last July while battling a fire on a cargo ship, The city maintains that …