Boat catches fire in Moonraker Lake in Eden Isles
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Updated: Aug. 1, 2019 at 4:08 PM CDT
SLIDELL, La. (WVUE) -Firefighters extinguished a boat fire Thursday in Moonraker Lake in Eden Isles.
St. Tammany Parish Fire District #1 says the boat owner was having some work done to his boat and the boat was filled with fuel.
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Upon starting the inboard motor, the boat caught on fire. The dock and boat shed that the boat was moored in caught on fire and suffered significant damage.
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The burning boat floated out into Moonraker lake. Firefighters borrowed a neighbor’s boat and used the prop wash to push the burning boat to the nearby point where they were able to successfully extinguish the fire.
No one was injured
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