Dramatic moment two people are rescued from boat after it exploded in flames off coast of California

Firefighters rescued two people from a boat that caught fire off Santa Barbara County on Monday. Both were uninjured, and crews quickly extinguished the blaze; the incident prompted a response from several local emergency services.

The Montecito Fire Department received the report at about 12.36pm on 9 November, when the boat was roughly half a mile offshore near Butterfly Beach. Harbor Patrol members brought the two people aboard, while Santa Barbara City firefighters tackled the fire. The article also recalls a separate boat emergency near Alcatraz in July, in which a person and a dog died.