MARTIN COUNTY \u2013 A man working on his boat engine on Sept. 16 was severely burned when fuel in the bilge area flashed on him, according to a Facebook posting by Martin County Fire-Rescue.<\/p>\n
Martin County Fire-Rescue units responded to a boat fire just before 9:30 a.m., Sept. 16 near the 2700 block of Northwest Howard Creek Lane, Stuart.<\/p>\n
Paramedics transported the man to a local hospital with traumatic injuries and burns on his arms, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
The State Watch Office was notified because of about five gallons of gasoline which entered the water. Fire-Rescue\u2019s Hazardous Materials team was also on scene assessing the gasoline.<\/p>\n
A State Fire Investigator was also on scene examining the cause of the fire in more detail. No other boats or structures were in danger, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n
Stuart Fire Rescue Engine 2 crews responded, along with MCFR Rescue 18; EMS 2; Engines 18 & 21; HAZMAT 21; Alert 1 and Battalions 1, 2 & 3, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY \u2013 A man working on his boat engine on Sept. 16 was severely burned when fuel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[326,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-403710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-martin","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403710","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=403710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}