More than half a dozen houseboats momentarily caught fire at a popular boating destination on the Utah-Arizona line on Friday, igniting while tourists and jet skiers stood by before the flames were extinguished.
smoldered as black plumes of smoke wafted into the air above the lake and the red rock walls that form its perimeter, video from observers shows.
"I started pulling boats off the dock trying to create a gap so it didn’t act like a tree line," he said. "The cause of the fire is being investigated and information will be released by the National Park Service when available," Cesaro said.Wilkes said he had not heard of anyone injured. But he said one of his management company’s boats had been destroyed.Water levels on Lake Powell are rising thanks to the heavy snowpack in the Colorado Rockies, and currently, water levels are at 3,525 feet – up three feet compared to last year.
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