Four Rescued From Burning Boat off Texas

The passengers were rescued by Good Samaritans from a nearby boat and further aided by the Coast Guard.

Seaman Jason Hall, a crewman with the Coast Guard who was amongst those dispatched to assist the distressed ship and its crew, said in a statement that it’s “nice to see that there are good people that are willing to help”.

US Coast Guard Four people are lucky to be alive after they were rescued from this burning yacht near Galveston, Texas on Saturday.

“They ultimately got the infant among the clean water and to discover the mommy leaped soon after him”, Marquez said. I went straight up, real close to it, and I was yelling ‘Throw the kid!

New York Daily News reports that Michael Marquez, one of the onlookers that noticed smoke and flames rising from the yacht, stated that all he could think of was to tell the trapped victims to throw the child overboard, a young boy, who appeared to be around 6-years-old. Throw the kid!’

The Coast Guard on Sunday said good Samaritans in another vessel saw the flames and saved the boaters in an incident off Galveston, near a jetty. A boat passing by helped them escape the flames.

The Coast Guard also tipped their hat to the Good Samaritans. The blaze is believed to have begun in the vessel’s engine room, Nease said.

Those rescued – three adults and a six-year-old boy – were pulled to safety before the yacht sunk to its watery grave in the waters near Galveston, Texas.