Terrible fire in Alabama

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• reneechris14 Member Posts: 3,134 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 2020

  Alabama boat fire on Tennessee River: 8 deaths confirmed in Scottsborohttps://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/4586641002&ved=2ahUKEwjImo_byqTnAhWCdd8KHfyKDDAQFjABegQIDRAI&usg=AOvVaw31_QijsOqs8p0Pn7_vPSX-&ampcf=1
  

  2005 Rinker FV342  Pawcatuck river,Ct

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• Willhound Member Posts: 4,242 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 2020

  Good Lord. That is just horrific.

  "Knot Quite Shore" - 2000 FV270 (Sold)
  2018 Cherokee 39RL Land Yacht (Sorry...)

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• MarkB Member Posts: 4,009 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 2020

  Wow, that is terrible.
  

  Boat Name: King Kong

  "Boat + Water = Fun"

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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,074 mod

  January 2020

  The water was 43° F ... hard to even think about it.

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• aero3113 Member Posts: 9,881 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 2020

  WoW, horrible.

  2008 330EC

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• raybo3 Administrator Posts: 5,615 admin

  January 2020

  What a shame. Just terrible 

  2002 342 Fiesta Vee PC Point Of Pines YC Revere MA. popyc.org     raybo3@live.com

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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,074 mod

  January 2020

  I wonder if there's some way the boating community could show support.  I couldn't find anything about a yacht club at Scottsboro Marina.

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• rasbury Member Posts: 8,972 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 2020

  Om my....that's a hard story to read. God bless their souls.

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• randy56 Member Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 2020

  Cannot imagine the horror, waking up and not being able to get off the dock. 

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• Dream_Inn Member, Moderator Posts: 7,946 mod

  January 2020

  Just a terrible way to go.  I'm sure they'll investigate the cause.  We had a fire on our dock a few years back that took out 4 boats (mine was next in line) caused by a candle on board.  

  Dream 'Inn III -- 2008 400 Express

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• skennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭

  January 2020

  Incredibly scary especially now that I have a child on board.  Terrible.

  2002 - 270FV Mag 350 B3

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• LaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 8,074 mod

  September 2020

  The accident report is out.  The boats in this accident were not "boats" as we use the word.  They were basically derelict vessels with people living on them.  If there had been a boat with working engines, some of those victims might have escaped with their lives.  
  
  The boat that started the fire sat in her slip without moving for at least a decade until she was repossessed and sold to somebody with no boating experience.  The heating system used by that person consisted of a portable electric heater and an electric blanket.  Not surprisingly, the fire started in the electrical panel.  
  
  Meanwhile, the marina made every possible mistake in terms of readiness.  
  
  https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/MAB2032.pdf 

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• J3ff Member Posts: 4,233 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 2020

  "The seven occupants who remained in the cabin of the vessel—five children, their mother, and another woman—became trapped by the flames and perished in the fire."
  
  How awful  

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