{"id":108284,"date":"2024-12-24T12:04:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/1-dead-5-hospitalized-after-boat-explosion-and-dock-fire-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T12:04:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:04:35","slug":"1-dead-5-hospitalized-after-boat-explosion-and-dock-fire-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/1-dead-5-hospitalized-after-boat-explosion-and-dock-fire-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 5 hospitalized after boat explosion and dock fire in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-24\/122424_FireRescueFL_Boat.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue (FLFR)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One person died and at least five were hospitalized after a boat explosion and dock fire at a marina in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred in direct view of an EarthCam feed set up at the Lauderdale Marina.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue responded to several 911 calls about the incident at approximately 6 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, they reported discovering one primary boat fire that had spread to a second nearby vessel at the marina, according to a statement from FLFR.<\/p>\n<p>Several people were injured from both the explosion and the fire, officials noted, and five were sent to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Three of those individuals were hospitalized with &#8220;traumatic&#8221; injuries, according to the FLFR.<\/p>\n<p>Divers and watercraft began searching for one individual who was unaccounted for after the blast, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>However, that person was found deceased by the Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office later that evening, according to the FLFR.<\/p>\n<p>The identities of the six victims of the explosion have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the cause of the fire is underway, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Agencies involved included the BSO, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the U.S. Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News&#8217; Matt Foster contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue (FLFR) One person died and at least five were hospitalized after a boat explosion and dock fire at a marina in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The explosion occurred in direct view of an EarthCam feed set up at the Lauderdale Marina. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue responded to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/1-dead-5-hospitalized-after-boat-explosion-and-dock-fire-in-florida\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}