CHANNEL ISLANDS REGION, Calif. (KEYT) – A boater was rescued from the waters near Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa islands after their disabled vessel caught fire and the skipper was forced to abandoned ship.
According to Jesus Aguirre, a driver heading to Lompoc along Highway 101, he spotted black smoke coming from a vessel around 20 miles offshore and he called the U.S. Coast Guard's Los Angeles office to report the fire.
The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed they received a report of a boat fire in the Channel Islands region, activated a small response boat from their Channel Islands station as well as an aerial response from their Ventura station.
Responders learned that the skipper of the involved vessel was awaiting a tow for his disabled boat when it caught fire, forcing him to abandon the burning boat in a small boat or kayak shared the U.S. Coast Guard.
The adrift mariner was rescued from the open water by a passing good samaritan who transferred the rescued boater to a responding tow boat at the scene detailed the U.S. Coast Guard.
Eventually, the flames lessened and the aerial response vehicle was waived from the incident and the responding small vessel from the Channel Islands was tasked with investigating any environmental impact from the boat fire explained the U.S. Coast Guard.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office joined the response and was gathering images of the scene.
Your News Channel reached out to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office for more information and its response will be added to this article when it is received.
There was a separate, uninvolved boat fire closer to shore, about three miles off El Capitan around the same time Tuesday.
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