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- 1989 PT52 Overseas Yachtfisher
Up to 10 boats on fire.
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Up to 10 boats on fire.
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I just talked to a friend (and client) who lives in La Conner- he counted 11 boats as total losses. He said it was a cluster___k with the volunteer fire department doing all they could, but being overwhelmed....
Was it a volunteer group that responded at LaConnor? Isn't that side of the waterway on government land?
They responded engines from five stations. It was a mix of volunteer and full time firefighters from the surrounding area and a fire boat from Anacortes.
Fortunately, the fire was isolated to one dock of boats in the Shelter Bay Communities private marina. This is across the channel and South of downtown LaConner on leased Swinomish Tribal Land. It's not the much larger Port of Skagit County marina in La Conner proper.
Smart Plug?
Since this is a private boat harbor with an assortment of private and club owned docks, there were no fire hydrants or fire suppression equipment at or on the dock.
One more time for anyone who has never fought a boat fire....FOAM!!!!
Water, used correctly, (in my experience it rarely has been) has many uses and only sinks the boat that is too far along (not always) when started. Either water gets the first boat early (usually not a glass boat once the resin has really started to cook and that's usually long before trained/equipped guys show up) or it's primary use becomes limiting the number of boats impacted. True if enough hose teams are available) It can create a barrier much like is done fighting fires on land. Then it can also allow other boats to be moved away. Many marinas with a lot of houseboats have fireboats on site. Houseboats, especially older ones, tend to be involved in a lot of fires. With the fireboats docked at the marinas there they have been able to limit the damage significantly. Without it would go down a dock and get many boats if not all. Now in the same circumstances the damage is usually limited to no more than three boats and often only one boat has any serious damage and the two beside it just have smoke damage. Sometimes even the primary boat damage is quite limited.