By RANDALL DICKERSON
Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The chief of the Brentwood, Tenn., fire department says he knew a cruise with his wife and six teenagers would make memories.
He discovered what kind early Monday when the fire alarm went off aboard the Royal Caribbean Grandeur of the Seas. The public address system announced a fire on board, and stewards pounded on stateroom doors.
Chief Brian Goss spoke by telephone from Baltimore. He said his family and their friends arrived in the city around 1 a.m. Wednesday after a weather system grounded their flight from Freeport, Bahamas, for more than four hours. Besides Goss and his wife, Marie, the couple’s three sons were aboard, and each son brought a friend on the cruise.