>> You’re looking live at mayport where 2 shrimp boats are now under water after
they caught fire overnight.
Good morning, everyone
firefighters worked for hours
trying to put those flames out
early this morning but in the
past
15 minutes.
>> A fire started again and
then just minutes later the
second boat sank earlier this
morning flames could be seen
shooting from the 2 docked
boats the first
that sunk in the early morning
hours news 4 Jax reporter
Jennifer ready has been
following the story.
>> All morning since it first
broke at 4.30 joins us live
from mayport Jen
they tried to fight the flames
they tried to keep the boat
afloat all if you thought.
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>> Good morning just in the last 15 minutes or so the second shrimp boat did sink and
go under water now both boats
are under water they want to
give you a look
at the scene here this morning
you can see part of that second
shrimp boat is still partially
above water you can see it
there. We are not seeing any
fire crews
out there anymore they are
still here on the scene but
since that vote now is under
water they have backed
away from that boat. I want to
show you this sky 4 video of
the ship arrive of the bow
rather as it was going under
water crews were at the time
battling some planes that had
reignited on the boat and we
were seeing smoke right before
this bought this boat to go
under water. This is what the
scene looks like very early
this morning when we first
arrived here you could see
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the massive flames coming from
this boat.
Heavy smoke in the area and
firefighters were battling this
fire for several hours here
this morning. They’re caught
here shortly after 3 o’clock
this morning and again this
second boat just went under
water just in the last
10 to 15 minutes or so we did
have an opportunity
to speak with a shrimper who
once worked on in
this boat, here’s what he had
to tell us about his reaction
here this morning.
>> The first boat ever worked
on over there chain to the
body. A boat.
Just got told this morning I got was about as liberal and my friends of friends camper at
the St. The game. I said
Thursday that rolled over vote
on our hurricane damage.
That you got off that boat to
explode.
>> And to give you some perspective. This is right next to the Coast Guard station and
safe harbor Marina.
We are still seeing crews out
here this morning and we did
have an opportunity to also
speak with one of the owners of
safe harbor seafood and he
tells us that this was
something he was not expecting
and this is really the
livelihood for these fishermen
and this is a really bad time
of year for this to happen for
them is the holiday season.
They were having a great
season. So his heart went out
to all of them about the
livelihood and the impact that
this has on them going forward
going forward if you take a
look one more time you can see
to the left is that
right in to which they go and
are just in the last.
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10 to 15 minutes or so into the right is where that second shrimp boat went down earlier
this morning. We do know that
no injuries were reported and
that they are investigating
exactly what led up to this
fire. Jennifer ready Channel 4
the
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the ♪ local station.
>> They are been talking a bit
about the fact that this is
more about just losing a couple
of thoughts.
If you know the history about
mayport shrimpers 2 decades ago
there is something like 40
shrimp boats that were in
the area and then a couple of
years ago hurricane Matthew
destroyed a lot of the dock
space that was in the area and
the number shrimp boats window
to about half of that there
were 20 and they were jockeying
for space so this is insult to
injury to a lot of the families
and a lot of the men and women
who rely on the shrimp boats
to provide. Well food on the
table for their families it’s
their livelihood without a
doubt a will continue to follow
this story both on air and on
news 4 Jax dot com.
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