Fire investigators were unable to determine the cause of a marina fire Sunday night at Seattle’s Lakewood Moorage that burned three boats, according to a spokeswoman for the Seattle Fire Department.
“There was too much fire damage for them to pinpoint what happened,” spokeswoman Kristin Tinsley said Monday of the blaze that sent a 59-year-old man to the hospital with minor injuries.
The fire, which broke out on a large pleasure boat and quickly spread to a live-aboard boat and a smaller boat, caused an estimated $200,000 loss, Tinsley said. The injured man and his dog were on the live-aboard boat.
A photo posted on the fire department’s blog shows a Seattle police officer with an arm around a dog wrapped in a blanket, keeping the animal warm until its owner returned.