Update: One dead, two missing after boat sinks near Alcatraz
A pontoon boat with 19 passengers sank between the island and the Golden Gate Bridge. Rescue operations continue.
A pontoon boat with 19 passengers sank between the island and the Golden Gate Bridge. Rescue operations continue.
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At least one person was killed, and two others are missing, after 16 people were rescued from the water as a boat sank in the San Francisco Bay Tuesday afternoon, prompting a massive response from crews working to rescue people.
Crews continued to search for the missing with divers, helicopters and 11 vessels.
Authorities said two people are still missing after a boat capsized off Alcatraz Island, updating an earlier report that one person was unaccounted for. One person died, and 16 others were rescued.
San Francisco's fire chief and Mayor Daniel Lurie detailed what happened when a boat capsized near Alcatraz Island.
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A pontoon boat with 19 passengers sank between the island and the Golden Gate Bridge. Rescue operations continue.
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Seventeen people were rescued and one person remains unaccounted for after a boat capsized near Alcatraz on Tuesday.
A dramatic search and rescue effort, centered around a pontoon boat, is underway in the San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island. A total of 19 people were aboard the vessel, fire officials say. One of them died.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The San Francisco Fire Department said crews are responding Tuesday afternoon to an active search following a passenger boat in distress, about 600-yards from Alcatraz Island, which has injured up to nine people and killed one victim. According to SFFD, there were 19 peopl...
Rescue crews are responding to an apparent boat fire near Alcatraz Island off the coast of San Francisco.
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