FIFTH OPENING – The Sitka seine boats Hukilau and Rose Lee pump herring aboard this afternoon at the end of Deep Inlet during the fifth opening in the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery. The opening was being held in two locations beginning at 11 a.m. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Daily Sitka Sentinel
Three Fishing Boats Burn at Craig Harbor
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
Sentinel Staff Writer
Two fishing vessels were destroyed and a third heavily damaged in a fire in the North Cove Harbor in Craig early Sunday.
The cause of the fire is not yet known and no injuries were reported, the Coast Guard said.
The F/V Seaborn and F/V Pacific Lady were destroyed and the F/V Julia Kae, formerly of Sitka, sustained heavy damage, a Craig harbor staff member said today. None of the boats sank, she said.
Above: Boats are engulfed in flames in the Craig Harbor, Sunday. (Photo by Kelly Knapp)
Below: The F/V Julia Kae, one of the three boats in the fire, was declared a total loss. (Photo by Michelle Dahistrom)
The dock between two of the vessels was burned, and some boats received minor damage from the fire, she said. Other vessels were moved offshore or to a different part of the harbor once the fire started, the staff member said.
The Craig fire department and harbor department and a number of volunteers responded to the fire and contained it, said Craig Harbor Master Hans Hjort.
Hjort said he could see flames about 10 feet off the top of the boats and a lot of black smoke around the vessels when he arrived, and the wind was blowing the flames sideways. He could see firefighters had started to battle the blaze at the vessels, which were nearly a quarter mile from the top of the ramp. A volunteer with an ATV saved firefighters some time by running the hoses out to the boats, and another vessel with a pump pulled up alongside the fire and started spraying water.
“There were lots of community volunteers pitching in on whatever was needed,” Hjort said. “Everyone was trying to help out as much as they could.”
The Coast Guard was notified of the blaze at 3:30 a.m. Hjort said it took about 90 minutes to two hours for the firefighters and volunteers to knock down the fire completely.
The Coast Guard estimated the 57-foot Seaborn and 56-foot Pacific Lady as having a maximum fuel aboard of 2,000 gallons and 1,500 gallons, respectively, and the 49-foot Julia Kae has a maximum capacity of 3,800 gallons. Sheening from all three of the vessels “appears to be minimal,” but a boom has been deployed around two of the boats, the Coast Guard said.
The Julia Kae was known in Sitka as the Alice H, until it was sold in 2008 to a Mukilteo, Wash., resident, the Sitka harbor department said.
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March 2004
Matthew C. Hunter of Sitka recently returned from Cuba as part of a St. Olaf College International and Off-Campus Studies program. Hunter, a junior physics major at St. Olaf College, is the son of Robert and Kim Hunter of Sitka.
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