PORTLAND (AP) — One person was injured in a butane stove explosion aboard a charter fishing vessel in Maine.
Coast Guard crews were notified just before 10 a.m. Saturday that a passenger aboard the charter vessel Dawg Daze had been burned in the explosion and that the boat was headed back to port. A rescue boat carrying Coast Guard personnel and three Portland firefighters met the charter vessel about seven miles off the coast of Portland and brought the 35-yearold man to shore, where he was then taken to Maine Medical Center.
The fishing boat is based in Harpswell. The victim’s name has not been released.
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