Work crews and a tanker truck could be seen on the deck of the Wolfe Islander IV around 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 4, 2024, hours after Ontario's Ministry of Transportation said the ferry was damaged while en route to Kingston.
Just over three months after their new electric ferry finally came into service, Wolfe Islanders found themselves in a frustratingly familiar situation on Wednesday — stranded for hours at the dock in Kingston, Ont., without a working boat to get them home.Work crews and a tanker truck could be seen on the deck of the Wolfe Islander IV around 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 4, 2024, hours after Ontario's Ministry of Transportation said the ferry was damaged while en route to Kingston.
"Afterwards they realized, 'OK, this is a bigger problem," she explained. "That's when divers were arriving and then the boat, I guess, was taking on a bit of water." "We were very lucky because there were people who were in the line from 1 p.m. until 1 a.m. or longer," Beaucage told CBC in a phone interview with CBC around 9:30 a.m. Thursday after she finally got home.
The older boat began carrying passengers until 12:45 a.m., more than 12 hours after its counterpart was damaged. It ran on demand to clear the backlog before reverting to hourly trips, according to the ferry's social media account. Specifically, they raised safety concerns: Paramedics haven't been stationed on the island since last year, so they rely on the ferry to transport ambulances to and from the mainland during emergencies.lists the average ambulance response time for Frontenac Islands as 39:11, with 90 per cent of calls seeing a response within 56:32.
"In the event that there may have been a third ambulance call, the ferry would be able to draw additional power from the batteries on an emergency basis — but standing operating procedures require recharging after two calls," she wrote in an email.
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