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Watch: A Huge Fire Burned Three Boats in Charlestown

$1 million in damages but no injuries after the late-night blaze.


A fire ripped through three boats in Charlestown Tuesday night, sinking two of them and causing an estimated $1 million in damages.

Fire officials say they received a call for a fire on the water at around 11:20 p.m. on Tuesday. The flames appear to have spread from one boat to two others nearby. BFD and MassPort crews spraying flames from a boat and a ladder extended over the harbor fought the blaze until just before 1 a.m. Wednesday. There were no injuries.

Video captured at the scene shows the intensity of the flames raging on the Constitution Marina.

Photos of the aftermath show one boat still afloat but blackened, while another was severely damaged and flopped over on one side, and another had been completely submerged.

An investigation and clean-up effort is now underway.