A horrific boat explosion in South Florida waters left 11 people, including a child, hospitalized for severe burns and other traumatic injuries Saturday.<\/p>\n
Over 25 Miami-Dade fire rescue units along with the US Coast Guard arrived at the scene after repeated calls of a boat blast near the Haulover Sandbar, a bustling tourist hotspot in Miami, came in around 12:48 p.m., officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A child suffered burns on 18% of his body, and an adult was burned on roughly 30% of his frame, the Miami Herald reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A boat explosion in Miami sent 15 people to the hospital Saturday afternoon, as over 25 fire rescue units were dispatched to the scene. WSVN 7<\/p>\n
The blast happened near the Haulover Sandbar, a bustling tourist hotspot in Miami, came in around 12:48 p.m., officials said WSVN 7<\/p>\n
Officials designated the incident as a Level 2 Mass Casualty Incident due to the number of victims. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue originally claimed 15 poeple were hospitalized, but later reduced the number of casualties to 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Victims, many of whom were stranded in the water, were transported on lifeboats to nearby fuel docks before being rushed to a local hospital, according to dispatch audio.<\/p>\n
Air rescue teams also transported people to safety.<\/p>\n
A witness who claimed he was on the boat that exploded \u2013 a 40-foot Press Cruiser 4400 Express named Nauti Nabor from Texas \u2013 told the outlet that a gas leak had caused the blast.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the worst experience of my life,\u201d the man, who was identified only as Leo, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The boat that exploded was identified as a 40-foot Press Cruiser 4400 Express named Nauti Nabor from Texas, according to a witness. WSVN 7<\/p>\n
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Fire crews said the explosion may have come from the boat\u2019s fuel tank; its captain was not injured in the blast.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Local Tiki boat operator Patrick Lee said he saw people being thrown off the boat with severe burns as he was transporting customers onto his own vessel.<\/p>\n
Fire crews said the explosion may have come from the boat\u2019s fuel tank. WSVN 7<\/p>\n
Passengers were thrown from the vessel with severe burns, a local tiki boat operator who witnessed the disaster said. Local 10<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we looked back out, we saw three people being thrown off the boat in a puff of smoke,\u201d he told the Miami Herald.\u00a0A Miami-Dade Fire Rescue spokesperson reminded the community to proiritize safety during boating season in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMake sure your vessel is equipped with a working fire extinguisher and all required safety equipment,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A horrific boat explosion in South Florida waters left 11 people, including a child, hospitalized for severe burns…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":786300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,32258,15582,723,380,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-786299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-boats","10":"tag-explosions","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-miami","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116549742252298175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}