A boat fire at Millstone Public Landing in Water View Saturday morning resulted in two juveniles and an adult being transported to Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Gloucester with burns to the face and hands, reported VMRC media director Laurie Naismith. 

One of the juveniles was later transported to Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk for more extensive treatment, said Naismith.

Although names were not released by VMRC, Naismith said a father and his two juvenile sons from Maryland were visiting the children’s grandfather who lives in the Water View area when the boat caught fire about 9:30 a.m. at the landing dock on Parrotts Creek.

Members of the Upper Middlesex Volunteer Fire Department of Water View fought the fire. UMVFD fire chief Billy Collier said on Tuesday that the 24-foot cabin cruiser starting smoking from the engine compartment when the operator (grandfather) attempted to turn on the engine.

After going to his truck for tools, the smoke became fire and the two children were burned along with their father. The children and their father were transported to the hospital by the Central Middlesex Volunteer Rescue Squad of Urbanna.

The boat was pushed away from the dock and into the creek, where it continued to burn.

Naismith said there were no charges involved. “It was just an unfortunate and horrible accident,” she said.

At least one person was hospitalized after a boat caught fire on the Rappahannock River in Middlesex County Friday morning.

An official with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission said crews were dispatched to Waterview Marina at 9:51 a.m.

The Middlesex County Sheriff's Office and the Essex County Fire Departments responded.

Officials said one adult and three juveniles were on board when the boat caught fire.

At least one juvenile was transported to an area hospital with burns.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

 A  man living on his 40-foot-long sailboat was seriously burned after a wood pellet stove caught fire and a wave of flames hit him when he opened his cabin door, police said.
The boat was heavily damaged by the fire and sank into the Hudson River at the Haverstraw Marina off Beach Road.

Sheriff's Office Chief William Barbera said when the man smelled smoke and opened the door to his sleeping quarters to investigate, the rush of oxygen caused a flash of flames, engulfing the victim.
The man's face and hands were severely burned, Barbera said. While his condition was not available, Barbera said the burns were not considered life-threatening.

An ambulance crew took the victim to the burn unit at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla. Barbera said the man was in his 40s.

Thiells Fire Department Chief Jason Parente said the boat was "fully involved" with fire when firefighters arrived on scene. Fire boats from Stony Point and Thiells pounded the craft with water, as other volunteers hooked up hose lines and watered down the boat and the dock area.

"We knocked the initial fire down to get it under control," Stony Point Assistant Fire Chief Nick Attolino said. "They tried to knock down the last bit but water got into the boat through holes," causing it to sink into the Hudson River.

Parente said some of the dock also was burned and two adjacent boats suffered heat damage,.
The fire was reported at 8:27 a.m., bringing out about 15 Thiells volunteer firefighters and additional volunteers from Stony Point. Officers from the Sheriff's Office and Haverstraw police also responded.
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Barbera said the cause of the fire is being investigated.

Multiple people were injured Saturday evening when an explosion occurred on a boat on the St. Johns River, Green Cove Springs police said. 

Police and firefighters were called to reports of an explosion on Bulkhead Road in Green Cove Springs just after 5:30 p.m.

Police said crews arrived to find several people in the water at Reynolds Park and multiple boats on fire.

Stephen Glover, 53, and Randall Thompson, 66, had turned off their boat's electricity to work on a fuel leak. Glover said while the electricity was off the bilge pump may have kicked on, causing the fire and forcing everyone to jump into the water. Within minutes, the fire spread to four other boats.

Those boats are now deemed a total loss and are inoperable, according to the state fire marshal.

"While they were working on the boat they heard a loud pop and then they were surrounded by flames forcing them to jump off the boat and into the water," Kimberly Robinson with the Green Cove Springs Police Department, said.

Former U.S. Navy firefighter John Jarvis said he was eating dinner on his boat at the marina and heard the explosion and knew what he had to do.

“I ran down here as fast as I could, and I started yelling to push the boats away,” Jarvis said. “When you get this bad a fire, and you can't put the fire out, then you have to break the fire triangle up, they call it.”

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Although the boats are charred and hardly recognizable, Jarvis said he's just glad he was able to jump in at the right time, getting the victims to safety.

“Everybody worked together, and all the group down here worked together, and got these boats out and retied down there, because the owner of the Valiant, he's in California,” Jarvis said.

Both Glover and Thompson are expected to make a full recovery. Officials said the cleanup will take a while, and may have to bring in a crane to lift the boats from the water.

 A boat was destroyed and a nearby dock damaged in a Tuesday night fire in Shirks Bayou.

The call originally came in to the Niceville Fire Department as a brush fire, according to Assistant Chief Tony Lohrman. When firefighters arrived a 32-foot boat was fully involved.

There were no passengers aboard at the time and no one has claimed ownership of the boat.

As firefighters were battling the fire, wind may have spread it to a nearby dock, according to Lohrman.

​He said the boat was a total loss and the dock sustained about $5,000 worth of damage.

East Niceville Fire District assisted in fighting the fire and the State Fire Marshall is investigating.

Four people and a dog reportedly have minor injuries after a boat fire in St. Simons Island Sound in Georgia, according to U.S. Coast Guard officials.

U.S. Coast Guard crews rescued the people and dog on board the vessel that exploded early Thursday morning. Officials warned mariners of debris from the explosion.

The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.

Anne Arundel firefighters responded to a Tracys Landing marina Wednesday afternoon after a boat caught fire, a department spokesman said.

Firefighters responded to the Herrington Harbor North marina at 389 Deale Road around 2:40 p.m. Upon arrival they discovered a 30-foot Sea Ray Sundancer fully involved with flames, Capt. Russ Davies, a fire department spokesman said.

Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze in about 15 minutes. The fire is estimated to have caused some $50,000 in damage to the boat, Davies said.

Investigators have attributed the blaze to a mechanical malfunction involving the boat's engine.

​No one was injured.