In the light of the day after the fire, this is all that remains of the five boats that once occupied these slips at the Tyee Marina in Tacoma.
One boat is underwater. Two are nearly submerged. And the two that are still floating are beyond repair.
So once the fire was out, the concern shifted to the 100 gallons of fuel estimated to be on board the five boats.
"The biggest things with oil spills or dangerous materials spill is getting on it right away," said Shawn Zaniewski, a spill responder with the state Department of Ecology.
He says Tacoma Fire responded with firefighters and special booms to corral any oil that spilled.
"So they had two pieces of barriers from stopping it from going out to Commencement Bay itself," said Zaniewski.
Cries for help could be heard clearly as heard in a recording the first person on the scene made of the fierce flames, as he approached a man who had fallen into the water.
The man and a woman were rescued.