A salvage team is expected to arrive early next week at the scene of a cargo ship that was carrying about 3,000 vehicles to Mexico when it caught fire in waters off Alaska’s Aleutian island chain.

Midas caught fire Tuesday roughly 300 miles from Adak, Alaska. The ship was carrying thousands of vehicles when it erupted.

Fire erupts on a cargo ship carrying 3,000 electric vehicles off Alaska’s coast. The US Coast Guard had to let the vessel burn off for more than 24 hours