Boat owners and Marina Worst nightmare.

[Joint Custody]

Our Marina had a fire tonight.
No one injured six boats burned one dock a total loss.

If any of you know lake Powell Utah Bull Frog marina this is a very very very remote part of Utah with very little infrastructure and Emergency Services the closest Real fire department is two hours away.
Park service and Aramark does the best they can. No fire boat at the marina. They basically contained and put out this fire, using trash pumps with a 2 inch hose pumping out of the lake.

It’s a miracle that the whole marina wasnt a total loss.

It involved three different fingers of the Marina.

 

[Scott215]

I was there 40 years on vacation it was a whole different lake bake then

 

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View attachment 153407View attachment 153408View attachment 153409View attachment 153410Our Marina had a fire tonight.
No one injured six boats burned one dock a total loss.

If any of you know lake Powell Utah Bull Frog marina this is a very very very remote part of Utah with very little infrastructure and Emergency Services the closest Real fire department is two hours away.
Park service and Aramark does the best they can. No fire boat at the marina. They basically contained and put out this fire, using trash pumps with a 2 inch hose pumping out of the lake.

It’s a miracle that the whole marina wasnt a total loss.

It involved three different fingers of the Marina.

That sucks! Did the boats that look like they are on mooring balls in the first picture get moved or is that a permanent mooring? Isn't that your marina?

 

[Joint Custody]

Where the fire was are all slip boats. The boats on the mooring balls are permanent spots.

Yes the fire was at our marina. The houseboat that caught on fire was across from my slip. When they pushed it out of the slip it started to drift to our slip . Lucky a person on the dock was able to get a rope back on the house boat and hold in place until the marina was able to get there with a work boat and push it away from the slips unfortunately the wind was strong last night and pushed the boat on fire into another finger of the dock and that burned four boats to the water line.

The marina only had four workers .. as it is end of season. Park service only had five.

There was a group on a houseboat on my dock that saw the fire and where the first responders using six 10 pound fire extinguishers on the dock and garden hoses. They had the fire out and then it flared back up from the inside of the boat and accelerated to out of control.

If this group wasnt down there I would think the marina would of been a loss as park service and Aramark employees all live about five miles away.

Out of all the slips in the marina there was only about 50 people on the dock and on the end the fire was only the people on my dock.

No one was hurt that is the most important thing.

 

[northshore]

...No one was hurt that is the most important thing.

Thank God.

 

[Joint Custody]

Holding the rope was actually a good idea. Our marina had a symposium where firemen came to teach about boat fires. Firemen said they hate it when people push fire boats away from pier. Now firemen cant get to them to extinguish. They said, yes push it away but try to hold lines or chains to it keep from drifting away. We learned a lot that day.

Correct. Get a long line on it and get it away.

That was the big issue last night . the fire was to large for the marina to get to the boat to tie a rope to it and pull it out and way.

They just kept ramming it with the work boat and they would have to back up from the heat and go at it again.

The marina worker that got there first and acted fast was 28 years old. He is a great person with a good head on his shoulders. His wife came with him and she quickly fired up the trash pump on the work boat and kept them wet and the fire suppressed as much as they could.

He beat park service to the fire by ten minutes.

 

[Joint Custody]

We have had a big issue with park service that last four years . They have pulled resources from the lake year over year.
We have gone up and down the chain of command about it but nothing gets done.

 

[Scott215]

Good thing everyone's all right it's all the matters

 

[mrsrobinson]

@Joint Custody I am sure you know this, check your boat out thoroughly. I was under contract to purchase a boat a few years ago, at the last minute I ran a boat check history report on it, something felt off so I checked. The report came back stating the boat had been involved in a fire. I called the reporting company to see if they had more detail's, they did. A boat next to it caught on fire. There was water damage to the boat I had under contract from the fire department extinguishing the fire. There were signs of excessive heat damage to the boat as well at the time of the fire.

Owners and broker claimed that were not aware of this.

 

[Stray Current]

I am not sure I’d be so broken up about it if it happened to mine as of late…

I’m just really glad that nobody got hurt.

 

[Stray Current]

I like my boat, its my escape pod, something to do now that retired. But if it happened to mine, send me a check and I’ll find something else to do.

Exactly. I’m sure I’ll feel a little bit better about it if it stops beating me up here for a little bit.

 

[Stray Current]

This was first summer since i bought in 2020 that i had no repairs. 4th year. I ain’t buying another used one and starting over.

Oh you ain’t kidding! If I ever do it again there’s gonna be a pair of Japanese egg beaters with a full warranty on the transom

 

[Stray Current]

My one year old Suzuki is in the shop. 5 year warranty. Brought home for winter. Wont start. Ran fine 2 weeks ago. If it has a propeller, it will be a problem.

I got north of 1k hours out of the last 3 Yamahas on oil, gear lube, plugs, pumps, stats and filters. And 2 timing belts at 1k hours each

The third was a smoker. Rebuilt low pressure pumps and carbs at 1900 hrs but ultimately the corrosion took that 1987 in 2011 with about 2500 hours

 

[Bruceflinch]

Glad no one was injured. Terrible boat loss