{"id":343,"date":"2014-08-13T18:19:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T22:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=343"},"modified":"2014-08-13T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T22:19:14","slug":"brick-firefighters-respond-to-boat-fire-fueling-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/08\/brick-firefighters-respond-to-boat-fire-fueling-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Firefighters Respond to Boat Fire, Fueling Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_344\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-13-at-6.17.31-PM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-344\" class=\"size-full wp-image-344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-13-at-6.17.31-PM.png\" alt=\"Sandy Point, Brick, N.J. (Credit: Google Maps)\" width=\"647\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-13-at-6.17.31-PM.png 647w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-13-at-6.17.31-PM-400x251.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Point, Brick, N.J. (Credit: Google Maps)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick firefighters responded to two incidents involving watercraft on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The first call came in at 4:45 a.m. in a lagoon in the Sandy Point neighborhood, said Chief Kevin Batzel of the Brick Township Bureau of Fire Safety. Firefighters from Brick Fire District No. 1 arrived and found a 29-foot boat to be fully involved, he said. Firefighters quickly got the blaze under control and ultimately determined that the cause of the fire was electrical in nature, likely having to do with the boat\u2019s hookup to shore power.<\/p>\n<p>Batzel said the fire began outside the boat and worked its way in. No one was injured, and the boat\u2019s owner was not on hand at the time the fire broke out. The boat was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon, just after 3 p.m., firefighters and EMTs rushed to Bay Tree Court in the township\u2019s barrier island portion for a report of a boat fire that turned out to be a minor incident involving a personal watercraft. Batzel said the owner of a Sea Doo was using starter fluid and experienced a \u201cflash\u201d which he mistook to be a fire. The owner\u2019s injuries were minor and he was treated at the scene and did not have to be taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/08\/brick-firefighters-respond-to-boat-fire-fueling-accident\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick firefighters responded to two incidents involving watercraft on Wednesday. The first call came in at 4:45 a.m. in a lagoon in the Sandy Point neighborhood, said Chief Kevin Batzel of the Brick Township Bureau of Fire Safety. Firefighters from Brick Fire District No. 1 arrived and found a 29-foot boat to be fully involved, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[77,83,24,81,82],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-barrier-island","tag-boat-fire","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-fire-district-1","tag-sandy-point"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-13-at-6.17.31-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-5x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}