The Coast Guard rescued three people from a boat fire about a half-mile offshore north of Billygoat Hole on Dauphin Island Wednesday evening.
The Coast Guard says three people were able to escape onto a life raft where the Coast Guard found them in the water.
The three people were taken back to shore where EMS was waiting.
Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier says the three people are reportedly doing well.
The Coast Guard has taken fire crews to the boat to help put out the fire.
The cause of the fire is currently undetermined.
The following is a press release issued by the Coast Guard:
The Coast Guard rescued three people who went into the water after their vessel caught fire near Dauphin Island, Alabama, Wednesday.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Mobile received a report at 5:55 p.m. of three people aboard a 36-foot sport fisher that caught fire in Dauphin Island Bay approximately a half a mile north of Dauphin Island.
Sector watchstanders directed the launch of a 29-foot Response Boat-Small crew from Coast Guard Station Dauphin Island to assist the people.
The three people departed their vessel onto a life raft.
The boatcrew arrived on scene at 6:35 p.m., located the three people and transported them to Station Dauphin Island to awaiting emergency medical services in stable condition.
The boatcrew transported members from Dauphin Island Fire Rescue to the burning boat to fight the fire.

A late-night fire that destroyed a deadrise workboat off of the Honga River is under investigation by the Maryland State Fire Marshal. And two watermen are now out of work.
The 40-foot boat caught fire around 10:40 p.m. Saturday at a dock in Wingate, a small community in Dorchester County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The Lakes and Straits Volunteer Fire Company was reportedly responding to a car wreck nearby when they passed the boat on fire at Powley’s Marina, known by locals as Wingate Dock.
Firefighters were able to get the fire under control, but not before it caused $70,000 in damage, according to the Fire Marshal’s Office. The deadrise belongs to Brandon Beville, who, along with another waterman, makes his living on that boat.
The fire happened right next door to the Honga Oyster Company, an aquaculture operation that does business with Beville.
Honga Oyster’s owner, Bill Cox, later helped move the engine off of the boat, and it appears to be salvageable. On Monday the hull was being assessed to see if it’s sound enough for a fiberglass replacement.
“It was a nice boat,” Cox tells Bay Bulletin.
No one was on board at the time of the fire, and there were no injuries. The Fire Marshal’s Office lists the preliminary cause as “incendiary,” but didn’t elaborate to Bay Bulletin, citing its active and open investigation.
Cox believes things could have been much worse, if the wind had been blowing a different direction. He says the wind blew the fire back toward the engine box, rather than sending sparks towards several other boats docked nearby.
For Beville, though, a man in his 20s with a young family, the future will be uncertain.
“He’ll probably get on someone else’s boat and save money to try and buy another one,” Cox says.

Three boats were destroyed and a storage slip was heavily damaged after a fire broke out at Grand Pappy Point Marina in Denison Wednesday afternoon.
Denison Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Bruce Geilhausen said dispatchers received a report of a boat-dock fire shortly before 1 p.m., prompting a multi-agency response. Prior to firefighters’ arrival, marina staff were reportedly able to move three burning boats out of the dock house and took them to an empty stretch of nearby shoreline. No injuries were reported.
The fire drew crews from Denison, Pottsboro, Locust and North Texas Regional Airport — Perrin Field and was managed from both on the ground and on the water. Geilhausen said strong winds, the boats’ flammable-fiberglass hulls and a concern over environmental impacts complicated the battle with flames. The boat-house’s wood interior sustained extensive damage and the structure was cordoned off.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Grayson County Fire Marshal’s Office and an environmental team from the U.S. Army Corp will monitor the clean-up process.

 A fire that burned primarily in the cabin of a 40-foot fishing boat in the Port of Los Angeles was knocked down 24 minutes after the first alarm Sunday night.The fire was reported at 6:09 p.m. Los Angeles Fire Department Fire Boat 2 began the attack with its water cannon, knocking down the bulk of the fire, the department’s Nicholas Prange said.
Firefighters extended hand lines into the boat to finish off the remaining flames, Prange said.
Firefighters searched the boat after putting the fire out and found no victims, Prange said.
There were no reported injuries.
The cause of the fire was unknown.

A boat caught on fire at a marina in Fort Myers early Monday morning. 
At least one boat caught fire at Sweetwater Landing Marina off FL-31. 
According to a Fort Myers Shores firefighter, a woman woke up to her boat on fire. 
Light smoke was seen coming from the burned-out boat, which is still in the water, according to witnesses. 
The boat is severely damaged but the woman wasn't injured, according to firefighters. 
Lee County deputies were also at the scene, which cleared around 5:30 a.m. 

Fire destroyed a private dock and a boat in Soddy-Daisy in the early morning hours Monday.
Hamilton County Emergency Management says the fire broke out on the 2500 block of Stonesage Road at about 2:30 a.m.
Crews responded to reports of an explosion. Deputies with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office were the first on the scene and reported the fire.
Soon after, Sequoyah Volunteer Fire Department crews arrived. and quickly went to work getting to the fire and establishing a water supply to the dock,
Firefighters brought the fire under control and asked the Hamilton County Hazmat Team to see if a boat that was burning had spilled or leaked any fuel. It was determined that the fuel burned off during the fire, and no further action was needed from Hazmat Team.
The fire caused an estimated $60,000 in damage. No one was hurt.
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency was notified of the fire since it happened on the water.

One man with burns was airlifted Monday night to a hospital in Galveston after a boat caught fire in the Seadrift City Harbor.
His age and name were not available Tuesday morning, though he is about 30 years old and from the Galveston area, said Sgt. Mike Henry of the Seadrift Police Department.
The man was working on the engine of a 20-foot oystering vessel named “Shark” when the fire started.
Henry said the boat was fully engulfed in flames when he arrived on the scene about 9:20 p.m. The man’s hands were severely burned, and he had burns on his face and nose, Henry said.
“He was by himself at the time working on his boat, and somehow it ignited; I don’t know whether through a spark or heat, but it caught fire,” he said. “He jumped into the water, and other local oystermen helped him out.”
The boat sat afloat in the harbor Tuesday morning, burned black with a gaping hole on the right side and a mangled engine.
No nearby boats appeared to be damaged.
Henry said the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office, Seadrift Volunteer Fire Department, Calhoun County EMS and Texas General Land Office responded to the harbor to assist Seadrift police.
The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting its own investigation, though whether the incident is being investigated as an explosion or fire was not immediately clear, said an official with U.S. Coast Guard Sector/Air Station Corpus Christi.
No pollution was reported as a result of the incident, according to the Coast Guard’s initial report.
In November 2018, two men were hospitalized after a 28-foot aluminum oystering vessel exploded in the same harbor.
The boat exploded as they were getting ready to leave the harbor the day after oyster season opened, the Advocate reported.

The South Bristol Fire Department responded to a fire on a lobster boat Tuesday morning at the town landing.
Fire officials say the 32-foot lobster boat named "Mona Jean" caught fire around 7:04 a.m., and owner Kendall Hall was fighting the flames from the dock.
By the time the South Bristol and Bristol Fire Departments arrived, the boat was fully engulfed in flames.
The Coast Guard checked to see if fuel leaked into the ocean, but they did not find any.
All that is left of the boat is the hull.
The boat is now at Bittersweet Landing Boatyard.
Fire officials are still investigating the cause of the fire, but Hall thinks it may have been electrical.
He was brought to Miles Memorial Hospital and treated for smoke inhalation.

Three people were hurt, two of them seriously, after a fire broke out on a boat in Marina del Rey Friday afternoon, officials said.
Baywatch del Rey reported that a 35-foot power vessel was burning heavily in the marina’s main channel around 1:30 p.m., according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
It took crews about half an hour to extinguish the flames.
Two people were taken to the hospital with major burn injuries, and a third was transported with minor injuries, firefighters said.
There was no information available on the patients’ ages or genders.
The boat was completely destroyed and sank, fire supervisor Cheryl Sims said.
Investigators were sent to the scene around 2:20 p.m., but the blaze’s cause remains unknown, according to Sims.