Firefighters battled a morning boat blaze at a Medford yacht club, knocking down flames on two docked boats while surrounded by gallons of burning fuel.
“It was pretty dicey there for a moment,” said Medford Deputy Fire Chief Richard Colorusso. “We had burning fuel all around us.”
A total of 18 firefighters responded to a report of fire showing at the Mystic Yacht Club in Medford, Colorusso said. When they arrived, they found two boats ablaze parked next to each other on land where they were being stored for the winter, Colorusso said.
“The fuel tank breached on the boat where the fire at least appears to have started in,” he said. “We had at least 100 gallons of fuel on fire rolling out of the boat and we had trouble getting foam going.”
Colorusso said the fleet’s top ladder truck was unavailable, so firefighters were forced to use a spare truck, and the equipment used for dispensing fire suppressing foam, used to cool and smother flames, was “not adequate.”
Firefighters battled a morning boat blaze at a Medford yacht club, knocking down flames on two docked boats while surrounded by gallons of burning fuel.
“It was pretty dicey there for a moment,” said Medford Deputy Fire Chief Richard Colorusso. “We had burning fuel all around us.”
A total of 18 firefighters responded to a report of fire showing at the Mystic Yacht Club in Medford, Colorusso said. When they arrived, they found two boats ablaze parked next to each other on land where they were being stored for the winter, Colorusso said.
“The fuel tank breached on the boat where the fire at least appears to have started in,” he said. “We had at least 100 gallons of fuel on fire rolling out of the boat and we had trouble getting foam going.”
Colorusso said the fleet’s top ladder truck was unavailable, so firefighters were forced to use a spare truck, and the equipment used for dispensing fire suppressing foam, used to cool and smother flames, was “not adequate.”
“It was pretty dicey there for a moment,” said Medford Deputy Fire Chief Richard Colorusso. “We had burning fuel all around us.”
A total of 18 firefighters responded to a report of fire showing at the Mystic Yacht Club in Medford, Colorusso said. When they arrived, they found two boats ablaze parked next to each other on land where they were being stored for the winter, Colorusso said.
“The fuel tank breached on the boat where the fire at least appears to have started in,” he said. “We had at least 100 gallons of fuel on fire rolling out of the boat and we had trouble getting foam going.”
Colorusso said the fleet’s top ladder truck was unavailable, so firefighters were forced to use a spare truck, and the equipment used for dispensing fire suppressing foam, used to cool and smother flames, was “not adequate.”
Firefighters battled a morning boat blaze at a Medford yacht club, knocking down flames on two docked boats while surrounded by gallons of burning fuel.
“It was pretty dicey there for a moment,” said Medford Deputy Fire Chief Richard Colorusso. “We had burning fuel all around us.”
A total of 18 firefighters responded to a report of fire showing at the Mystic Yacht Club in Medford, Colorusso said. When they arrived, they found two boats ablaze parked next to each other on land where they were being stored for the winter, Colorusso said.
“The fuel tank breached on the boat where the fire at least appears to have started in,” he said. “We had at least 100 gallons of fuel on fire rolling out of the boat and we had trouble getting foam going.”
Colorusso said the fleet’s top ladder truck was unavailable, so firefighters were forced to use a spare truck, and the equipment used for dispensing fire suppressing foam, used to cool and smother flames, was “not adequate.”
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