All Conception crew members were sleeping when boat fire broke out, NTSB says
as the vessel was anchored off Santa Cruz Island. Officials suspect the 34 people who were killed died of smoke inhalation.Stanley Payne, 79, whose wife’s sister was on board the Conception with several other relatives, took a long pause while he processed the news that all crew members were asleep at the time of the fire.
“There’s so much left to chance when you depend on a roving watchman,” he said. “You have the technology, the 50-year-old-plus technology, of a smoke alarm that would have even alerted the roving watchman right away if he wasn’t up and awake.”The NTSB has released its preliminary report into the Conception boat fire disaster.
The crew members jumped onto the main deck — one man broke his leg in the process — and tried to access the salon and galley to get to the passengers out, but that area was fully engulfed by fire. Overwhelmed by smoke, the crew jumped overboard, according to the report.
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