Three Boats Destroyed by Fire in Trapani Sicily

Three boats were destroyed by fire at the Columbus Marina, in Trapani's Harbour, to the West of Sicily from a blaze which started at 03:15 early morning time of seventh May.  The fire is reported to have started first on the above pictured sport cruiser of nine meters in length, and then jumped to two sailboats of ten and twelve meters respectively to its starboard side.  The naval section of the Vigili del Fuoco responded to the blaze, and was helped by the Port Captaincy of Trapani. Two of the boats sank with the water from the fire fighting, while the third sail boat was reported to have been towed outside of the marina to avoid that the fire expands more to nearby boats.  It took three hours to extinguish the blaze, as no one was injured in the fire although two boaters are said to have been on one of the sail boats affected from the blaze, but manage to escape unscathed.  The Port Captaincy of Trapani is investigating the cause of the fire.  

The sport cruiser in this fire is a Klase A 32 Hunter as produced from 2005 till 2012.  The 32 Hunter was replaced by the Klase A 32 Open.  Klase A is a boat builder from Argentina founded in the early noughties and today offers seventeen models from six to 23 meters in length.