A fire broke out aboard the Morning Midas, a 600-foot Liberian-flagged cargo ship traveling from China to Mexico with more than 3,000 vehicles onboard—751 of them either fully electric or hybrid models.

A cargo ship transporting 3,000 cars was abandoned in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday after a massive fire broke out. As of Friday, the ship was still burning. The blaze may have been fueled by the vehicles’ lithium-ion batteries, which are notoriously difficult to extinguish once ignited.

Mr. Funk was the managing editor of Pleroma Media, and worked as a breaking news reporter at The Messenger after spending 25 years at Fox Television as a producer, executive producer, and digital content director.