Firefighters Extinguish Burning Boat Off California Coast

Montecito, United States – Firefighters extinguished a burning boat about half a mile off Butterfly Beach after two people on board were taken off uninjured.

Footage released by Montecito Fire shows a thick column of black smoke rising from the boat on Monday, November 9, before a fireboat directs a jet of water onto the vessel as it sits low in the water.

The department said the call came in at 12:36pm. Montecito Fire responded with Santa Barbara City Fire Department, Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District, AMR and Santa Barbara Harbor Patrol.

Harbor Patrol reached the boat first and took the two people aboard, the department said. Santa Barbara City firefighters on a Harbor Patrol boat then put out the fire.