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Multiple people were injured and four had to be hospitalized after a 30-foot boat caught fire in Long Beach, California Friday.
First responders arrived at about 7:15 p.m. local time and found the boat in flames near the permanently moored ocean liner the Queen Mary.
There were seven people on a dinghy who were subsequently rescued. Of those, two had suffered injuries requiring immediate attention, and two additional people also went to the hospital. The other three refused treatment, Long Beach Fire Department Capt. Jake Heflin told the Los Angeles Times.
No other watercraft or nearby structures were impacted by the boat fire. The cause of the blaze is still being investigated.
A Reddit user who was on a narrated boat ride in the area posted a purported video of the fire, and said that they “heard a loud boom and then turn around and saw a boat on fire with someone on it.”
The burning boat was towed to an isolation dock in Alamitos Bay around 6.5 miles away, Capt. Heflin told worker-owned media collective Long Beach Watchdog.
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