SAN FRANCISCO: One person was dead and three were missing after a boat carrying 20 people sank near Alcatraz, the former prison and tourist site in San Francisco Bay, US officials said on Tuesday (Jul 14).<\/p>\n
Helicopters, planes and rescue boats operated by local fire and police teams were working alongside US Coast Guard to find those who were missing.<\/p>\n
Fire Chief Dean Crispen said rescuers first responded to a report of “a boat on fire, 600 yards off Alcatraz” Island around 3.35pm, according to a short Instagram video posted by San Francisco’s mayor.<\/p>\n
When rescuers approached, the boat had capsized and efforts were made to resuscitate the person who died.<\/p>\n
“They immediately initiated CPR, transported that patient to the shore. They were declared deceased,” Crispen said.<\/p>\n
The fire department initially reported two missing, but later updated the toll to three, citing witness statements.<\/p>\n
San Francisco Fire Department Lieutenant Elias Mariano told AFP the search for those still missing will continue “through the night”.<\/p>\n
Rescue teams were using “thermal imaging, tide prediction, and modelling to help direct search efforts,” the department said.<\/p>\n
The boat was a privately owned cabin cruiser motorboat from Stockton, California, Mariano said.<\/p>\n
Authorities did not know if the boat was headed to Alcatraz, a major tourist attraction, where shuttered buildings of the famous former prison still stand.<\/p>\n
At least one person was severely injured in the water when rescuers arrived, the Los Angeles Times reported.<\/p>\n
Authorities confirmed the remaining 16 passengers were rescued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO: One person was dead and three were missing after a boat carrying 20 people sank near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,435],"class_list":["post-399292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}