Coast Guard pull three from raft after fishing boat catches fire
NEAR CANNON BEACH, Ore. - The U.S. Coast Guard rescued all three crew members of a fishing boat that caught fire early Friday morning near Cannon Beach.
Coast Guardmen in a helicopter and a 47-foot boat pulled three "well-prepared" and uninjured fishermen from a life raft just before dawn Friday as their boat, The Havana, burned nearby.
"The Havana's captain attended a safety drill conductor course in Newport last year," said Dan Hardin, a fishing boat safety cooridnator with the Coast Guard. "What he learned during that course may very well have saved his crew's lives today."
The boat was about 17 miles west of Cannon Beach and had 900 gallons of fuel on board.
The Coast Guard stayed on the scene to monitor any pollution issues. There was no word on what caused the fire.
Good job Captian and Coast Guard ..!!
Man... those fish are flammable. Toss one the wrong way and BOOM!
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 @negativerep Gives a whole new meaning to Tuna Melt...
Glad the fishermen were rescued without injury to anyone.
Dang, it looks like Japanese drift debris.
 @dkgiovenco I was thinkin' that boat doesn't look sea worthy even before the fire... Many of these boats shouldn't even be on the water. If you cannot afford to keep your boat up... maybe it's time to throw in the towel. (my opinion)
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 @Funky-Munky  @dkgiovenco I sign in and then nothing is allowed to be posted... If a commercial fishing boat is worked hard in salt water and has steel parts, rust streaks will appear, however if you do not go to sea and spend lots of time polishing your boat, boring.
 @Funky-Munky If only you knew how expensive it is too maintain and keep a boat of that size is. Also a paint job doesn't make anything sea worthy so what can you see?