{"id":730,"date":"2025-10-13T23:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/730\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:08:15","slug":"boat-catches-fire-near-commercial-boulevard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/730\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat catches fire near Commercial Boulevard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0October 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM<\/p>\n<p>Boat catches fire near Commercial Boulevard <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A boat caught fire Saturday afternoon near the Kaluz restaurant off Commercial Boulevard after one of its engines exploded shortly after departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/13\/motor-de-bote-explota-y-causa-incendio-en-fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/10\/13\/motor-de-bote-explota-y-causa-incendio-en-fort-lauderdale\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Owner Ivan Sayles and a friend had just left the restaurant when the boat burst into flames. Both jumped off in time and were not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m grateful to be alive,\u201d Sayles said. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy \u2014 the boat just exploded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue crews quickly responded, extinguishing the flames before the damaged vessel was towed away. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of the explosion is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Brett Knese\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d3b079d0-0444-499b-8cb7-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Brett Knese<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Brett Knese joined the Local 10 News team as a general assignment reporter in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM Updated:\u00a0October 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM Boat catches fire near Commercial Boulevard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}