Boat fire!
Smoke and Flame From a Large Boat Fire
Every other morning I go for a run through the sleepy little town of Rock Hall and end up at the marina shower. Today, after my run I was walking back from the shower to our boat and saw a column of thick black smoke rising from the marina next door. I was just passing one of the marina workers and asked him if he saw the boat on fire. He said “holy sh*t!,” and called it in. He had never seen such a thing before. We watched as the flames shot 30 feet into the air. Many explosions, probably from propane tanks, and pops like gunfire!
About 10 minutes later the firemen showed up and stretched a fire hose all the way from shore along the docks to the boat and had it extinguished in about two minutes. I’m sure the boat was a total loss and may have even burned the neighboring boats.
Shelly got back from her walk just then and said she had seen the smoke from a distance. She had to avoid getting hit by the responding fire tankers (there are very few sidewalks on the streets here).
Shelly heard later that it was a brand new boat (power, not sail) and it was unknown if there were any injuries. Turns out there were no injuries. Strangely enough, I was the first one to see the fire and luckily had a guy with a phone nearby to report it. I was surprised to see how quickly the boat went up in huge flames, something to think about.
Posted in Sailing by Mark with 1 comment.
This I do not like!