Firefighters quickly extinguish boat fire in North Bay

There were no injuries Wednesday afternoon when firefighters in North Bay were called to the scene of a boat fire near Memorial Drive.

A boat fire Wednesday afternoon billowed black smoke into the air in North Bay near Memorial Drive.

Firefighters were alerted just after 3 p.m., with two stations responding “for a boat fire with heavy black smoke visible at 100 Memorial Drive,” deputy fire chief Greg Saunders said in a an email Thursday.

“Firefighters were on scene in four minutes and very quickly extinguished the fire. Bartletts Towing was asked to attend to deploy booms in the water to absorb the contaminates from the fire.”

Officials were able to remove the boat from Lake Nipissing.

“The cause of the fire was not determined,” Saunders said.

“There were no injuries.”