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2 Hospitalized After Marblehead Boat Fire

MARBLEHEAD (CBS) -- Police say two people were hospitalized after a boat fire in Marblehead on Thursday.

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A fire broke out on a boat in Marblehead on Thursday. (Pamela Gardner/WBZ-TV)

Marblehead Harbormasters were called to a 45-foot sailboat on fire with heavy smoke off the Eastern Yacht Club in Marblehead Harbor shortly after 5 p.m. Officers, firefighters, Atlantic Ambulance Service paramedics, U.S. Coast Guard, Salem Harbormasters and Beverly fire's rescue boat provided help at the scene.

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Police, fire and ambulances were among the crews at the scene of a boat fire in Marblehead. (Courtesy Photo)

A nearby Eastern Yacht Club launch rescued one injured person and took them to State Street landing to meet an ambulance, police say. The hospitalized are at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Firefighters aboard a boat that caught on fire in Marblehead on Thursday. (Photo by Marblehead Police Department)

The fire was extinguished around 6 p.m.

The damaged boat was towed to shore.

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A boat that caught fire in Marblehead Harbor was towed to shore on Thursday. (WBZ-TV)

By around 7 p.m., the scene was cleared.

The incident remains under investigation.

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