{"id":341730,"date":"2026-07-16T04:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341730\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:26:14","slug":"crews-on-scene-extinguishing-boat-fire-near-hurricane-pass-one-injury-reported-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341730\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews on scene extinguishing boat fire near Hurricane Pass, one injury reported | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Fort Myers Beach Fire District<\/a> is on scene attending to a boat fire near Hurricane Pass.<\/p>\n

Along with crews from the Iona McGregor Fire District and the Bonita Springs Fire Control and Rescue District, first responders extinguished the boat fire late Wednesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the Fort Myers Beach Fire District, one occupant was on board the vessel at the time of rescue. They had sustained non-life-threatening injuries due to the boat fire.<\/p>\n

Local firefighters and the United States Coast Guard are present on the scene, monitoring the sailboat out of caution.<\/p>\n

WINK News contacted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission<\/a> regarding the boat fire and whether FWC was present on the scene.<\/p>\n

According to FWC, Lee County is the lead investigator of this scene. In addition, FWC noted that a 22-foot sailboat caught fire near the Hurricane Pass Bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They added that a Good Samaritan was present and tried to assist the injured person who was on the sailboat when the fire erupted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Fort Myers Beach Fire District released aerial footage of the boat fire on its Facebook account. Click here to view.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Our team has contacted the Lee County agencies involved in this scene to confirm the information given by the FWC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WINK News reporter Bridget Bruchalski is on the scene, gathering information and providing updates as they become available.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Stay tuned to WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Fort Myers Beach Fire District is on scene attending to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-341730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341730","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=341730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}