A boat carrying a couple and their two dogs caught fire Wednesday about eight miles offshore the mouth of St. Helena Sound, according to the U.S. Coast Guard in Charleston.
The 65-foot boat, named “City Slickers,” caught fire in the engine room at about noon, the Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard Command Center launched a small boat and helicopter from Tybee Island, and Parris Island Fire Rescue also sent out a boat for the rescue operation.
The fire was extinguished about an hour after it was reported, and everyone on board was safe and uninjured, according to the Coast Guard.
The boat’s engine was damaged, but the boat was not disabled. It rode safely to Skull Creek Marina on Hilton Head Island, escorted by the Coast Guard.

A boat was damaged Tuesday afternoon after it caught fire at the Port of Camas-Washougal.
Camas Fire Department says they responded to the fire around 3:45 p.m. near the Puffin Cafe.
When crews arrived on scene, they saw a lot of smoke and fire consuming the 30 foot sailboat. Firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to other nearby structures.
No injuries were reported.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.

​Another boat fire was put out quickly in a harbor in Petersburg Thursday morning.
The Carolyn Ann, tied up to the A Float in Petersburg’s South Harbor, was reported on fire by harbor staff. Petersburg Volunteer Fire Department spokesman Dave Berg said harbor staff knocked down the fire on the outside of the vessel with an extinguisher.
“Without them having spotted it, I’m sure the damage would have been much greater,” Berg said. “The volunteer fire department responded with two engines and officers who boarded the vessel, fire fighters boarded the vessel and followed up on hot spots in the engine room and in the interior of the house of the vessel, in some of the void spaces, extinguishing what was left of the fire.”
Volunteers were on scene about 25 minutes. Berg said the blaze is still under investigation but fire fighters have an idea of the cause.
“We strongly suspect that there was a short in the connection where the shore power comes in connection to the vessel,” Berg said. “The fire started right there at that plug and that can typically be an area that we see lots of times that deals with the failure of those electrical connections getting hot corroded and eventually bursting into flames because of the heat that’s generated in the transmission of the electrical when there’s a loose connection. So we certainly urge people to check their electrical connections, especially this time of year.”
Berg said people should check their extension cords for Christmas trees and lights with hot plugs, a sign they’re handling too much current or are damaged and should be replaced. It’s the third boat fire in the past three months in Petersburg’s harbors.

Everett Fire Department firefighters responded to a single boat fire at 4000 34th Ave NE around 8:30 Saturday.
Officials said the top of a boat caught on fire and firefighters had to use extinguishers, since there were no fire hydrants available. 
The cause of the fire is unknown at this time, and fire investigators arrived on scene to launch their investigation. 
No injuries were reported, and firefighters were able to get the fire out quickly. 

A fire ripped through Charlestown Marina late Monday afternoon, damaging four boats and parts of the dock, fire officials reported.
Firefighters responded to Dock A of Charlestown Marina shortly before 4 p.m. on Monday. Charlestown Fire Company, led by Chief Gary Bott, was first on the scene and reported that one boat was well-involved when they arrived, said Richard Brooks, director of the Cecil County Department of Emergency Services.
"The fire quickly spread to the other boats," Brooks said.
The Community Fire Company of Perryville, Water Witch Volunteer Fire Company and North East Volunteer Fire Company also responded to the scene and used a combination of foam and water to put out the fire, Brooks said.

Fire rescue officials in Tampa battled a shrimp boat fire that began on Sunday morning.
The call came in at 8:14 a.m. regarding the fire at 2601 Causeway Boulevard in Tampa, according to Jason Penny, spokesman for Tampa Fire Rescue.
There was no one on board during the fire, which appeared to decimate the shrimp boat. No one was injured during the fire, which was described as "heavy," according to TFR's Twitter account.
The blaze is under investigation.