NSW Maritime Safety Alert - Tweed River boat fire

2:08 PM Thu 15 Jul 2010 GMT

NSW Maritime today issued a safety alert to boaters following a boat fire in the Tweed River today. At 2pm, a 10m motor cruiser caught fire on its mooring at Fingal Head, Tweed River. A man and a woman were on board the vessel when the fire began after they started the petrol engines. They entered the water and were picked up by two separate vessels - a canoe and an open runabout and taken to shore. Two NSW Maritime Boating Safety Officers attended, and took local NSW Fire Brigades firefighters and Police officers in their patrol vessel to the ...

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by NSW Maritime