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<\/a>WEST ALTON, N.H. \u2014<\/p>\nCrews responded to a boat fire in Alton, officials confirmed to News 9 just after 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. <\/p>\n
Content shared from viewers shows heavy clouds of smoke coming from a boat on Smalls Cove on Lake Winnipesaukee. <\/p>\n
>> See raw video of the fire below <<<\/p>\n
A News 9 crew saw the charred boat, which is a bar and restaurant named “The Dive.”<\/p>\n
Some witnesses say they heard an explosion before seeing boats, jet skis and first responders approach the restaurant. Others, like Scott Hansen, say they saw the flames. <\/p>\n
“I was just out here walking down on the dock, and I saw some smoke, and I couldn’t see because of the trees right there,” Hansen said. “The back half, I didn’t know it was on fire. I thought it was just them cooking. And all of a sudden, I saw flames shooting out of everything.” <\/p>\n
Several Lakes Region fire departments and the New Hampshire State Police Marine Patrol worked to put out the blaze at the restaurant. <\/p>\n
The Dive posted photos of the damage on their Facebook page, writing, in part: “Today has been the hardest day in our journey. Watching The Dive burn was absolutely heartbreaking, and we are devastated by this loss.” <\/p>\n
The post mentioned the restaurant is grateful for the support they have gotten, particularly from those who helped fight the fire. <\/p>\n
Officials say no one was injured and the fire is now under investigation by the state Fire Marshal’s Office. <\/p>\n
Learn more about The Dive in this story<\/a> from New Hampshire Chronicle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews battle fire on floating restaurant on Lake Winnipesaukee WEST ALTON, N.H. \u2014 Crews responded to a boat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[124678,16179,4,450,334006,291374,295996,10070,451,334005,2804,3,334007,25283,452,453,291375,61796],"class_list":["post-784906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-alton","tag-boat","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-daybreak-watch","tag-demand-menu-subscribe","tag-email-weather-search","tag-fire","tag-headlines","tag-lake-winnipesaukee","tag-new-hampshire","tag-news","tag-nowcast-news","tag-page","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-use-nextfre","tag-wmur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}