Fireworks Cause Barge Fire Near Larchmont Waters

Last night’s fireworks show in the Long Island Sound did not go off entirely without a hitch.

At approximately 10 p.m., a barge shooting off fireworks stationed ¼ mile off the Larchmont breakwater caught on fire, according to reports from witnesses and Larchmont fire department officials.

Since Larchmont fire department does not have a marine unit, said the official who asked not to be named, the Village of Mamaroneck Fire Department’s Marine 2 unit and Seatow, a private, disaster response water unit responded.

According to the official, the people working on the barge put the fire out themselves with the Marine 2 unit.

No injuries were reported.

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