Huntington boat fire: Tow captain pulls blazing vessel away from fuel, other boats
Smoke billows from the boat as it burns in Huntington Harbor on Saturday morning. Credit: Huntington Fire Department/Matt Getter
A boat caught fire at a fuel dock in Huntington Saturday morning in a scene that officials said could have been worse without the work of a quick-thinking tow boat captain.
Huntington Fire Department Assistant Chief Matt Getter said the department responded around 10:45 a.m. to Wyncote Club on West Shore Road to a boat fire.
Getter said Capt. Mike Langenbach, of Sea Tow Huntington, saw the smoke from the fire and quickly got an anchor onto the boat and pulled it away from the fuel dock and the other vessels.
“Sea Tow dragged it away from the dock and kept it in the channel away from other boats,” Getter said in a phone interview. Langenbach declined to comment.
The boat, which Getter estimated was about 27 feet long, was towed to Gold Star Beach, where a Huntington Fire Department engine began knocking down the flames from a nearby parking lot. The department's boat assisted from the water. The blaze was brought under control about noon, and no injuries were reported, Getter said.
Images from the scene showed thick plumes of black smoke pouring from the boat, which appeared to suffer significant damage.
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