A boater escaped injury Sunday afternoon when his boat caught fire off the coast of Jupiter in the Intracoastal Waterway, a spokesman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said.
Engine trouble was the cause of the fire.
The 20-foot boat began to smoke about 50 feet from shore off Jupiter. PBSO responded. There were no injuries.

A Florida man is being hailed a hero for taking action when he says no one else would.
Bret Townsend, a certified EMT and soon-to-be paramedic, jumped on a jet ski and headed toward the smoke after he saw a boat in flames Sunday afternoon. 
A boat filled with gasoline caught fire near a sandbar in Tequesta. Townsend checked and everyone was off the boat, but he wasn’t done quite yet.
“My concern was the boat was going to blow off to the side, maybe catch something else on fire or get down into the fuel tank, maybe explode or leak oil into the water,” he said.
So, he drove the jet ski toward the boat as fast as possible, then turned at the last second to spray water onto the burning boat.
He sprayed the blaze for about 10 minutes from his jet ski before the black smoke turned to white, then altogether went out.
Townsend is graduating from paramedic school in July and is hoping to land a job with Palm Beach Fire Rescue.

Portland Fire and Rescue put out a sailboat fire near the Eastbank Esplanade on the Willamette River Sunday evening. 
Nobody died or was injured, a spokesman said, and the boat was still floating after the fire was extinguished. It took the department about 15 minutes to get it under control, the spokesman said. The department is still trying to figure out what caused the fire. 

Fire crews responded to a reported boat fire in Huntersville Saturday afternoon.
According to the Huntersville Fire Department, the incident happened at Blythe Landing in the 15900 block of NC Highway 73,
The incident was reportedly an engine fire and crews say it was out on arrival.
*Boat Fire Update* Cornelius Fire Boat 4 on scene (in the channel). Engine fire is out on arrival, releasing our Engine 2 from the scene. Note: this is the second lake call of the day (the other a medical in Cornelius). Guess we’ve started boating season!
— Huntersville Fire (@Huntersville_FD) April 28, 2018Citizens were asked to use caution in the area and yield to responding units.
Cornelius Fire Boat also responded on the water.
No further information was released.

Nine people were transported to safety after their boat caught fire off the Destin coast on Saturday.
According to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, a 44-foot Sundancer vessel caught fire about 11 miles offshore. The fire was contained to the engine room and nobody was injured.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit transported four children and three adults back to land. The U.S. Coast Guard transported the boat’s owner and captain after assessing the boat’s condition.
Officials had not yet released the cause of the fire.

Firefighters are investigating a boat fire at the Green Bay Yacht Club. 
Dave Kolz, battalion chief with the Green Bay Metro Fire Department, said a call came in at 9:23 a.m. Wednesday reporting smoke coming from one of the boats in the yacht club's storage yard.
He said firefighters had to cut a hole in the side of the 35-foot boat to get to the "engine compartment." It took two tanks of water to put out the blaze, he said. 
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but the fire does not appear to be suspicious, he said.
"There are a lot of boats there (at the yacht club) up on jacks and it's not unusual for people to work on them during the offseason," he said. "It could be a variety of things, like if the owners were using space heaters while they worked to keep warm." 
He said officials are talking with the owners of the boat to determine what might have happened. 
There were no injuries. 

Three people were able to escape a dangerous boat fire on Saturday evening off the coast of Sanibel.
The boat caught fire around 6 p.m., and fortunately, the driver and two passengers were able to jump off and avoid injury.
Crews responded to the fire, but eventually, it burned itself out.
An investigation is ongoing.

A woman suffered burns on her face and arms in Sausalito on Friday after the boat she lives on caught fire in Richardson Bay, officials said.
Emergency dispatchers received a 7:45 a.m. report that a boat anchored in the bay some 200 yards from the Schoonmocker Marina had caught fire, said Captain Mike Martinez of the Southern Marin Fire Protection District.
The victim, a 37-year-old woman, was taken to Marin General Hospital with 10 to 20 percent of her body burned, Martinez said. A photo from the scene shows at least a dozen firefighters at a dock as the woman is carried out on a stretcher.
“Any burns can be rather serious, but she’s in stable condition,” Martinez said.

The Coast Guard aided three fishermen in distress after their 45-foot fishing vessel caught fire and was flooding near Table Bluff, Wednesday morning.
A crew member of the commercial fishing vessel Advance called watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay via cell phone around 8:30 a.m., reporting an engine fire and flooding with three people on board. 
The caller said the crew was fighting the fire by dumping buckets of water into the engine compartment.
A 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crew from Station Humboldt Bay and a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Sector Humboldt Bay launched to assist. The crew of the Advance was able to extinguish the fire before the boat crew arrived on scene. The Motor Lifeboat crew passed a dewatering pump to the fisherman and instructed them how to dewater the vessel. Once the flooding was under control, the Coast Guard crew towed the Advance to Woodley Island Marina.
There were no reported injuries.