A 30-foot sailboat caught fire in San Diego Bay on Sunday, police said.
No one was aboard the boat, which had run aground on the south side of Harbor Island Drive, not far from the upscale Coasterra Mexican restaurant.
The fire was reported about 6:10 p.m.
The boat was engulfed in flames when Harbor police officers, who are cross trained as marine firefighters, arrived on a vessel equipped with firefighting gear, Sgt. Scott Ferraioli said.
Harbor police crews and San Diego Fire-Rescue firefighters put out the fire in about 15 minutes, Ferraioli said.
The cause of the fire was under investigation.

According to the Annapolis Fire Department, early this morning at 1:11 a.m., firefighters were dispatched to the 700 block of Second Avenue for a reported boat fire.
On arrival, crews found an approximate 25ft sailboat completely engulfed in flames.
Firefighters were able to put a quick knock on the fire but it took firefighters over an hour to place the fire completely under control due to the challenges of the sailboat on the water.
No injuries to firefighters or civilians were reported.

The bow of a boat poking above the water’s surface was all that was left after an early morning boat fire at Anchor Marina on Bethel Island, Monday, Dec. 21.
One man — thought to have been on the boat when the blaze started — was hospitalized. He was treated for a minor case of smoke inhalation according to East Contra Costa Fire Protection District (ECCFPD) Fire Marshal Steve Aubert.
An undetermined number of people reportedly living on boats in the marina were reportedly displaced as a result of the incident.
Improper use of a space heater appeared to be the cause of the fire, said Aubert.
ECCFPD Battalion Chief Craig Auzenne was first on scene after the fire was reported at 6:10 a.m. on the 1900 block of Taylor Road. He found a boat burning between the levee and a floating dock. Fire destroyed the gangway leading to the levee top and trapped an unknown number of people on the dock.
“Had the fire extended to the dock, we could have had a very bad situation,” Auzenne said.
The fire was contained to the boat and those trapped were evacuated from the dock by private citizens in their own boats.
A number of complications hampered the response to the incident including thick fog that slowed the responding units and limited access to the incident on a narrow, unpaved levee top road. Additionally, an outage at the Contra Costa County Regional Fire Communications Center resulted in the incident being dispatched by phone.The Red Cross was called to the location to assist as many as 15 people with temporary housing, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife responded due to gasoline and oil released into the waters of Taylor Slough. Additionally, Aubert said Contra Costa County Code Enforcement officials were called to the area for possible code violations.

A sailboat caught fire Sunday morning while sitting at a dock on a river, right behind the swimming point area near Portsmouth.
Portsmouth Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Services were called on Sunday, Dec. 20 around 5:58 a.m. about a sailboat fire on the Elizabeth River. Officials said this happened off Hospital Point near Naval Medical Center Portsmouth.
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When Portsmouth fire crews got to the dock they found the sailboat fully engulfed in flames and called Norfolk Fire-Rescue to assist right away.
PFRES Cheif Julian Williamson said crews were able to access the sailboat by going to the dock behind the neighbor's house where the boat was anchored.
There was only one man on the boat when the fire broke out, and he was able to be assisted off the sailboat by another individual and safely back to shore.
Officials said the owner of the boat was left with minor injuries and refused to go to the hospital.
The cause of the fire is under investigation at this time.

Two grandparents, two small children and their two dogs were rescued after they were forced to jump off a burning boat in Oregon.
“I was fairly terrified once I heard there were four people who had jumped off the vessel, because at that point we don’t know if we’re going to be doing rescues or recoveries,” Sgt. Stephen Dangler said.
Dangler was on duty Tuesday afternoon when the sheriff’s office’s marine unit got the call.
“We knew the condition was getting more and more serious,” Dangler said.
He said it took his crew 30 minutes to get to the family, since they were several miles away on the Columbia River.
By the time they got close, patrol deputies on foot could hear the family yelling for help but couldn’t pinpoint their exact location due to a sheer cliff covered in brush.
Meanwhile, the family clung to a muddy knoll and couldn’t get out of the water.
“This is a cliff ledge that went right up to the water level. So right where they were lying was about a foot of water,” Dangler said. “He was laying sideways in it; they were trying to keep the children up.”
So deputies steered the boat along the cliff. Dangler says it was easy to get the 8-year-old and 9-year-old, as well as the grandmother and a puppy, aboard the rescue boat. However, the grandfather and an elderly dog were struggling with hypothermia and couldn’t move.
Dangler couldn’t get them out by himself, so the rescue boat returned to shore to get more help and Dangler jumped in the water.
“I was kind of kneeling over the two of them. I was holding the one gentleman in my left arm and the dog in my right arm. And we were just trying to keep morale up, keep spirits up,” he said.
For several minutes, they waited in freezing water.
“I was able to verbally communicate with him for the first five to eight minutes, but then it began to slowly set in where he was not able to communicate as well,” Dangler said.
When the rescue boat returned, Dangler and another deputy pulled the grandfather and the remaining dog aboard.
After staying overnight in the hospital, the family is home and doing well.
Deputies say the two children and the grandmother were wearing life jackets and the grandfather was found clinging to a flotation device.
“Having life jackets available and accessible saved their lives,” Dangler said.
Deputies said at this point, they don’t know why the boat caught fire.

No one was injured after a 20 foot boat caught on fire Monday afternoon.
Bethany Alex, the spokesperson for Martin County Fire Rescue said the agency got a call about the incident around 3:30 p.m. near the Palm City Bridge.
Laurie Weber, a spokesperson for the Martin County Sheriff's Office said one man was on the boat, but was able to safely get onto another person's boat during the incident.
The fire was put out at 4:08 p.m., Alex said. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
The make and model of the boat were not released Monday. 
No further information was available Monday.

​Three people were injured, two critically, when the 31-foot sailboat Traveler exploded and burned about 2 p.m. while docked at Portofino Harbour Marina, officials said.
The two badly injured people were taken by air ambulance to the University of Texas Medical Branch hospital in Galveston, Clear Lake Shores communications specialist Adriana Richey said. 
The other person was taken by ground ambulance to the Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, Richey said.
Fire officials Friday were uncertain how many people had been aboard Traveler and had not determined what caused the explosion and fire, Richey said.