Vessel fire extinguished in GoM

NEW ORLEANS - The Coast Guard responded to a vessel on fire, with eight passengers aboard, about four nautical miles south of Perdido Pass, Ala., around 2 p.m. July 27. Coast Guard Sector Mobile received a report that the charter vessel Hoss Fly III was afire off the coast of the Orange Beach area in the Gulf of Mexico. All of the passengers were transferred to a good Samaritan's vessel. There were no injuries reported. The CG launched a 45-foot Response Boat crew from CG Station Pensacola, Fla., to the assist Orange Beach Fire Department in the response. The was extinguished about 2:59 p.m. The cause of the fire is under investigation. (Source: Coast Guard 07/27/19) Perdido Pass forms a water passage that connects Perdido Bay with the Gulf of Mexico to the south in Alabama, two miles west of the Alabama-Florida state lines.