US authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion on board a boat that injured 11 people in Miami, southern Florida.<\/p>\n
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Juan Arias told reporters that emergency crews responded to reports of a “possible boat explosion” at Haulover Sandbar, a popular tourist location.<\/p>\n
Eleven people were taken to local hospitals to be treated for burns and traumatic injuries, Arias said.<\/p>\n
Officials have not revealed the cause of the explosion. The BBC has approached Miami-Dad Fire and Rescue for further details.<\/p>\n
“We saw three people fly out of the boat,” eyewitness and local boat charter Patrick Lee told the BBC’s US partner CBS News.<\/p>\n
“I just saw a lot of them with burns all over them, and I said that it’s a hot fire,” Lee added. “It is quick, but it’s high octane gasoline, and so a lot of them got burnt and it was an explosion.”<\/p>\n
Videos from the scene appear to show a helicopter landing close to the Miami marina with emergency teams carrying at least one injured person on a stretcher.<\/p>\n
Fire and rescue teams were joined by the US coast guard and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation in responding to the incident.<\/p>\n
Haulover Sandbar is billed as a popular tourist marina in Miami, owing to its clear and shallow water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US authorities are investigating the cause of an explosion on board a boat that injured 11 people in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[114251,114276,123,125,124,114277,105479,114278],"class_list":["post-265386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-haulover-sandbar","tag-juan-arias","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-patrick-lee","tag-southern-florida","tag-traumatic-injuries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}