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Monday, March 10, 2003
Sailors douse fire with pails of seawater
By Allan I. Varquez
A FISHING BOAT caught fire while anchored off Barangay Tuyan, Naga town at 9:25 last night.
None of the 30 crew members of the Holy Queen fishing boat was injured.
Some of them were in the rented house of owner and skipper Candelario Cavalida, while others were ashore drinking beer when the fire broke out.
Fire investigator Arnold Vidal said the blaze, as seen by the sailors, began in the boat’s bridge and quickly spread to the engine room, devouring the wooden vessel.
Those ashore borrowed two smaller motorboats to tow their fishing boat closer to shore, but since the tide was low, they only got 200 meters from the shore.
Naga fire trucks were too far to aim water on the burning boat, so sailors fought the flames with pails of seawater.
“They were able to pull the boat to knee-deep water, but that was still too far for us to be of help,” Vidal said. He refused to give an estimate on the damage to property, pending owner Cavalida’s assessment.
(March 10, 2003 issue)
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