{"id":84556,"date":"2025-07-23T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84556\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:36:11","slug":"fire-destroys-boat-in-fox-lake-in-northern-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84556\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys boat in Fox Lake in Northern Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Boat catches fire in the middle of Fox Lake <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/c942d5093d4dcb7d2a1975a9d2e467c3-0-1753230116180.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/boat-catches-fire-in-the-middle-of-fox-lake\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Boat catches fire in the middle of Fox Lake<\/p>\n<p>          00:26<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A boat was left charred after catching fire in the middle of Fox Lake in Northern Illinois Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Antioch Fire Department was called at 1:31 p.m. to find the boat ablaze about 200 yards offshore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was huge,&#8221; said Ed Edens. &#8220;We were afraid it was going to blow up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A person on the burning boat jumped off, and was helped to shore by another passenger.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the fire department sent out its own boat, which has a 500-gallon-per-minute pump onboard. Crews worked for an hour to put out the fire on the boat, tow it to shore, and put out hot spots.<\/p>\n<p>The boat was a total loss after the fire. The cause was under investigation by the Antioch Fire Department, the Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, and the Illinois Conservation Police.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/adam-harrington\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam  Harrington<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Adam Harrington is a web producer at CBS Chicago, where he first arrived in January 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boat catches fire in the middle of Fox Lake Boat catches fire in the middle of Fox Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[40824,960,5025,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-84556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-antioch","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114899752265273892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84556","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=84556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}