Two people were on board amid a massive boat fire on Pewaukee Lake Saturday, June 5.
Firefighters had to use a boat launch to get out to the fire, and they could see the smoke all the way from the firehouse. As the thick, dark smoke billowed out from a boat on Pewaukee Lake, one of the firefighters out on the water was Captain Stephen Schultz.
"No, not very normal for us to see boats on fire," he said. Schultz said he was at the station when a different firefighter got a call from his wife to look out the window towards the lake.
"We all kind of went into the kitchen and peeked out and were like, ‘Holy cow, let’s start heading,’" said Schultz.
Once at the lake, Captain Schultz and another firefighter teamed up with the Pewaukee Boat Patrol to get the fire closer to shore.