What might have been a typical gig for musician Ben Burdick is now a day he’ll never forget!
Ben, along with a team of others, helped rescue a man after his boat burst into flames outside of the Mile High Marina in McCall.
People are back out on the Payette Lake this afternoon but it was a very different scene Wednesday afternoon.
It looked like a scene from a movie, but for Ben Burdick the scene was all too real.
“My mind was working really, really fast,” said Burdick.
Ben is a musician who was getting ready to perform at the Mile High Marina when a boat burst into flames.
“We weren’t there not even a couple of minutes and we looked up to see a man staggering out of a boat that was on fire by the gas pumps,” said Burdick.
That man got caught between the boat and a gas pump.
“You couldn’t see him at first and then you realize there’s someone who can’t move and he needs help desperately,” said Burdick.
So Ben jumped into action!
“I remember helping to drag the victim further from the boat,” Ben said.
A gas pump attendant then handed him a fire extinguisher.
“I ran up and tried to squelch the flames, but trying to put that fire out with that fire extinguisher was like charging an elephant with a slingshot it was doing absolutely nothing to the flames,” said Burdick.
When that didn’t work Ben turned his attention back on the victim.
“I just tried to calm him while we were dragging him along the dock and told him it’s not nearly as bad as you feel, it doesn’t look so bad, I know it hurts, but you’re gonna be okay,” said Burdick.
He didn’t do this alone though, Ben says a whole team of people jumped in to help.
“Mile High employees that were pumping the gas for this person did everything just right, they had an emergency gas valve shut off and they got everyone away from the pumps,” said Captain Freddy.
“Without all of those people reacting things could have been far worse,” said Burdick.
Paramedics arrived a short time later.
“What we wanted to do was prevent the gas pumps from going up, and then also the dock was on fire and it wasn’t just on fire on the top, but actually the floatation underneath was on fire so they had to cut the dock away with chainsaws to ensure they got all the fire out underneath,” said Captain Freddy.
Ben ended up not performing but Wednesday’s events struck a chord with him.
“I’m a musician, not a fireman. I’ve heard other people’s interviews who have been in situations like this and now I understand why they say stuff like ‘I’m not a hero, I just reacted.’ You see something has to be done and then you just do it,” said Burdick.
We are told the victim is a man in his 70s who suffered minor burns but was transported to a hospital in Salt Lake City for burn care.
Meantime, the cause of the fire is still under investigation.
There are two gas pumps at Mile High Marina. Only one of them will be operational during the Labor Day weekend.

A fire completely destroyed a sailboat off the coast of Fort Myers Beach early Tuesday morning. 
The Fort Myers Beach Fire Chief, Jake Lamb, says the fire started in the generator of a white sailboat anchored in the water around 2 a.m. 
Lamb says the captain then abandoned the boat in a kayak. 
Five rescue boats were called to the fire, but our crew on scene saw Bonita Fire Department arrive first and put out the flames. 
Four In Your Corner was the first media on scene. 
What's left of the boat will remain the water until Florida Fish and Wildlife retrieves it. 
No one was injured in the incident. 

The Hampton Division of Fire and Rescue responded to a boat fire at the Bluewater Yacht Yards in Hampton Monday morning.
Dispatchers received a call for a boat fire at 3:38 a.m. and were able to knock the fire down at 4:12 a.m. According to a tweet by the Hampton Fire Department, hazmat was called to the scene due to approximately 300 gallons of fuel leaking into the water.
“We were sleeping and all of a sudden there was this 'boom'," said Bill Knowles, who lives on a boat along the same dock.
At approximately 6:55 a.m., the fire kicked back up, according to reports from the scene, but was quickly extinguished.
Firefighters say fumes from the spilled fuel had come in contact with an ember on the dock.
The 40-foot-long boat is reported to be a total loss.
No other boats were involved, and no injuries were reported. The pier suffered only minor damage.
“This is a first for us and marina fires are fairly rare. When they do happen, they’re usually catastrophic so we really dodged a bullet here," said Earle Hall, Co-owner of the marina.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

A boat caught fire and burned Saturday along Lake Texoma.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol confirms that at approximately 3:45 p.m. Aug. 25 they were notified of a boat on fire off the shore of Treasure Island on Lake Texoma.
​The owner of the boat, a Texas man, told authorities that he had anchored the 45-foot boat and was in the cab getting a drink when he noticed smoke inside the cabin. The man disconnected the boat's batteries and still noticed the smoke.
When the man looked in the forward compartment of the vessel, he noticed it was fully engulfed in flames. Then man then abandoned the vessel and called authorities.
The fire on the boat was put out and the vessel was beached. It will later be towed. The incident is still under investigation.

Waukesha County officials responded to a boat engulfed in flames on Okauchee Lake on Saturday, Aug. 25.
It happened around 12:30 p.m.
Officials tell FOX6 News, the vessel was on fire on the southern portion of the lake.
The Waukesha County Sheriff's Department says Stone Bank and Okauchee Fire Departments helped put out the flames.
No injuries were reported.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

A boat was destroyed by fire on Lake George on Friday afternoon, and the occupants were able to escape the burning vessel by jumping into the water.
The boat caught fire around 2:30 p.m. near Diamond Island.
Lake George Park Commission and Warren County Sheriff’s Office boat patrols responded to calls for help, and were able to get the boat’s occupants out of the water.
The Lake George and Bolton fire departments responded to put the fire out, using a firefighting boat.
The cause of the fire was unclear later Friday afternoon.

Fire officials say a man was injured in a boat fire near Hayden Island Wednesday morning.
Portland Fire and Rescue responded to the incident at 515 Northeast Tomahawk Island Drive at 9:56 a.m.
Fire officials say a 27-foot sailboat caught fire while in moorage. They say neighbors and the first crews on scene prevented the fire from spreading to nearby boats. A makeshift fire boat at the marina also stopped the flames from spreading.
They say a 54-year-old man was transported to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center and is in the burn unit. Officials say he suffered burns from "head to toe."
No official word on what sparked the fire, however, witnesses say there was an explosion. There are no signs of wrongdoing, investigators say.
Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office River Patrol also responded to assist.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued four people over the weekend after a boat's engines caught fire off North Carolina.
The rescue occurred Sunday night near Fort Macon State Park in the Back Sound. A Coast Guard news release says authorities received the distress call shortly before 6 p.m.
A crew recovered three people from the water and one who was on the boat. The people survived and were taken back to a Coast Guard station nearby.
Petty Officer 3rd Class James Sellers, who was aboard the response boat, said not all of the people had on life jackets. He says it serves as a good reminder for people to have on life jackets at all times because there isn't always time to put one on when an emergency strikes.

Two vessels caught fire Monday morning in Jupiter.
It happened at the Suntex Marina on Casseekey Island Road.
​Johann Hoffend in Chopper 5 flew over the scene and said one of the damaged vessels was a yacht at least 30 feet in length.
He said there was a tremendous amount of smoke from the fire.
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue later said the fire damaged two vessels. It appeared they were a total loss from a photo of the scene.
No one was injured, fire rescue said.

Four people were rescued after their boat engines caught fire Sunday evening near Fort Macon.
The U.S. Coast Guard pulled three people from Back Sound and rescued another from the boat around 6:00 p.m.
Carteret County authorities got the distress call and notified the Coast Guard.
A 24-foot boat from the Coast Guard station at Fort Macon quickly rescued the four.
The Coast Guard says two of the three people found in the water were wearing life jackets. "Thinking that you can put on a life jacket right before you enter the water is dangerous. We recommend that you wear your life jacket while boating to be prepared in the event of an emergency," said Petty Officer 3rd Class James Sellers