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First responders rescued four people Saturday from a burning boat off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The 61-foot sailboat was about a mile off the sea when the flames broke out, Canaveral Fire Rescue confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Witness video taken from the nearby Pier Park beach shows thick black smoke rolling on the ocean.
The man who shot the video told the Newsgathering website the story said the ship “really rose quickly” and “sounded like some explosion happened.”
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Fires and smoke can be seen when a 61-foot sailboat was fired at sea in Cape, Florida on June 28, 2025. (Canaveral Fire Rescue)
Canaveral Fire Rescue said the four were on board “safely evacuated to another bystander’s ship and brought by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office without any injuries.”
According to Storyful, another ship helped put out the fire.
The U.S. Coast Guard and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are investigating the cause of the fire. No immediate response to Fox News Digital’s inquiry.
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On June 28, 2025, a sailboat in the Canaveral Cape, Florida, attacked the fire, appearing to be named “Aurora”. (Canaveral Fire Rescue)
On April 11, 2019, a short walk from SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket (top right corner), on April 11, 2019. (Greg Newton/AFP)
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Cape Canaveral is a hub for space travel in the United States. It is home to the Kennedy Space Center (hosts of NASA, SpaceX and Blue Origin) and also the Space Force military base
