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Officials have reopened the channel connecting the Port of Baltimore to the Atlantic Ocean after closing it to protect vessels from a hatch cover that blew off a bulker in an explosion. The Port of Baltimore said on Tuesday afternoon that the Fort McHenry Federal Channel had been reopened.
An explosion on a cargo ship carrying coal was heard throughout Baltimore's harbor on Monday night, prompting a distress call. The explosion was close to the site of last year's collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and caused the city's main shipping channel to be closed on Tuesday morning.
Baltimore County Police have deployed their Fire & Explosion Investigation team after a patrol cruiser was set fire overnight Tuesday in Parkville.