The Hall County Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating what caused a boat to explode on Lake Lanier Sunday, injuring six people.
The explosion happened at the gas docks for the Port of Indecision at Margaritaville at Lanier Islands. Georgia game wardens and Hall County Fire Services were called to the scene around 2:30 p.m. on May 9.
“Arriving units found a boat fully involved, an associated dock fire due to a jet ski that drifted away from the fire area and six patients to evaluate,” says Georgia Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Mark McKinnon.
Paramedics airlifted a 16-year-old female and a 13-year-old male to Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Hall County Fire Services transported a 39-year-old woman to Grady by ambulance.
McKinnon says the three other patients refused to be transported by ambulance to the hospital.
The explosion capped off a tragic Mother’s Day weekend on the popular Northeast Georgia lake.
On Saturday, May 9, a Stockbridge man drowned after jumping into the lake from a pontoon boat. Divers recovered his body approximately 24 hours later at the mouth of Balus Creek.
Anthony Saintil, Jr., 23, was the second person to drown on Lake Lanier in the past month.
