{"id":405619,"date":"2026-04-18T20:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405619\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T20:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:06:07","slug":"four-rescued-after-boat-catches-fire-in-dublin-bay-the-irish-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405619\/","title":{"rendered":"Four rescued after boat catches fire in Dublin Bay \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Four people had to be rescued by the Coast Guard after fire broke out on a boat in the bay off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dun-laoghaire\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dun-laoghaire\">D\u00fan Laoghaire<\/a> harbour on Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At about 3.45pm, an 11-metre pleasure craft with four adults on board called the Coast Guard reporting a fire on board. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At the time the emergency call was made the vessel was about 2.4km (1.5 miles) northeast of D\u00fan Laoghaire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Thick plumes of black smoke were visible from multiple points along the coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\">Dublin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-coast-guard\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/irish-coast-guard\/\">Coast Guard<\/a> immediately tasked D\u00fan Laoghaire RNLI. Aninshore lifeboat arrived on scene at about 3:56pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Fire off Dublin Bay on Saturday afternoon. Photograph: Rebecca Daly\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776542767_903_B7JMXJDDN5DWBI4IMPVXQ7RTRM.jfif.jpeg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"1066\"\/>Fire off Dublin Bay on Saturday afternoon. Photograph: Rebecca Daly <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The crew rescued the four adults and took them ashore to be assessed at the RNLI station, where they were met by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hse\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/hse\">HSE<\/a> and fire service personnel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The D\u00fan Laoghaire All Weather Lifeboat and Dublin Port tug remained on scene monitoring the situation and at about 5.15pm the fire on board the boat was reported extinguished and the vessel sunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people had to be rescued by the Coast Guard after fire broke out on a boat in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[615,16089,42,2120,5006,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-405619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-dublin","9":"tag-dun-laoghaire","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-hse","12":"tag-irish-coast-guard","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}