A massive emergency response was called to a marina in Rhode Island after two yachts (a sailboat and a motoryacht) went up in flames. Crews responding to a report of a blaze at Hinckley Yachts in Portsmouth found two boats engulfed in heavy flames.
According to Ray Perry, the town’s Emergency Management Director, the blaze started when workers were making repairs to the hull of a powered superyacht. They had cut out a section of the hull and were working with resin, a flammable substance.
Perry said the powerboat is almost completely destroyed. The second boat that caught fire was a sailboat.
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