A U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued four people from a commercial boat that caught on fire near Fort Morgan, Alabama.
Two Coast Guard helicopters diverted from a training exercise in Alabama to rescue four individuals from a fishing trawler engulfed in flames, according to reports.
Crews received a distress call around 6:45 p.m. Monday that the commercial vessel Alexandria Pearl was on fire near Fort Morgan, officials said. Two Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile MH-65 Dolphin Helicopter aircrews were conducting training flights nearby and diverted to respond the distress, the Coast Guard said. One of the helicopters lowered a rescue swimmer and life raft, and all four people aboard the vessel abandoned ship into the raft.