Anna Allen, of the Wrangell Volunteer Fire Department, wades through the smoke inside the cabin of the Spicy Lady, a crabbing vessel that caught fire on March 6. The Wrangell department responded to help quell the flames and escort the crew to safety.
After Spicy Lady, a Petersburg-based crabbing vessel, caught fire on March 6, the Wrangell Volunteer Fire Department arrived on the scene to cool things down.
The fire department received a distress call at 2:32 p.m. informing them of the boat fire. At the time of the call, the 58-foot steel hulled Spicy Lady was near Point Gardner at the southern tip of Admiralty Island. After a 100-mile floatplane trip, Wrangell firefighters met up with the Spicy Lady a few miles from Point Gardner, in Warm Springs Bay on Baranof Island, where another vessel had towed the fiery ship to safety.
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