| | |  News from Around Banderas Bay | July 2008 
Tragic Boat Fire on Banderas Bay
 T.J. Hartung - PVNN
| | The last cruise for the Vagabundo. I wasn't paying any attention to all the sirens at 1st, so by the time I noticed, it was a raging inferno. Hope they got everyone off safely. Just towed the charred boat back to the Marina. (Judy Kimball) | | |
Had quite a tragic event last night. We had just arrived at Apache's around 6:30 pm and 4 police vehicles, 3 ambulances and 2 bombero trucks sped down Francisco Rodriquez at end of Los Muertos Pier (down from Archie's).
Marco was sitting next to me and ran down there. You won't believe it but the tour boat, 'Vagabondo' exploded in flames right past the Malecon heading south.
People were in the water, some badly burned and pangas were in full force picking up the injured and bringing them to Los Muertos. Hysteria reigned but the police and emergency crews as well as citizens were all organized, fishing people out of the water & bringing them ashore.
Don't know how many people were on board but Jim & Carol said they saw the boat in flames & someone else reported hearing two explosions and then lots of smoke. Don't know if any fatalities - can only hope not! There are a lot of Mexican tourists here and undoubtedly the boat was full of them. The city even deployed a city bus to pick up the uninjured or those mobile enough to walk.
What a shock this must have be to those on board.
| | (David Lord/PVNN) | 
| | After the fire (David Lord/PVNN) |
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