Coast Guard suspends the search for survivors a day after a deadly dive boat fire off the California coast
The search has been suspended following a deadly Labor Day boat fire off the California coast, officials said Tuesday. Twenty bodies have so far been recovered. The victims have been identified as 11 women and nine men. [Original story published at 12:14 p.m.
— VCFD PIO September 2, 2019 Firefighters struggled to extinguish the fire because each time it was snuffed out, flames flared back up -- perhaps because of the fuel on board, the Coast Guard's Aaron Bemis said.By 7:20 a.m., the ship began to sink in 64 feet of water. The boat had burned down to the water line, Santa Barbara County fire spokesman Mike Eliason said.Many of the passengers were below deck, most likely sound asleep when the fire broke out, authorities said.
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