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Boat goes up in flames behind Florida Keys house

Smoke rises from a burning boat behind a Pimlico Lane house in Key Largo Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.
Smoke rises from a burning boat behind a Pimlico Lane house in Key Largo Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Monroe County Sheriff’s Office

Firefighters extinguished a flaming boat behind a Florida Keys home Tuesday afternoon, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies, along with the Key Largo Fire Department, arrived at the Pimlico Lane property around 4:10 p.m. and saw the 35-foot boat in flames.

Upper Keys residents said the smoke from the fire was seen for miles along U.S. 1.

A Key Largo Fire Department truck drives on U.S. 1 toward a house where a boat was on fire Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025.
A Key Largo Fire Department truck drives on U.S. 1 toward a house where a boat was on fire Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Photo by Melody Scoria

Firefighters extinguished the flames ; no one was on the boat nor in the canal-front home, said sheriff’s office spokesman Adam Linhardt, who added there were no reported injuries.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Miami Herald
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David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware. 
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