Separate boat fires in NJ, NY overnight kill 2 women, send 3 to hospital: officials

Raging fires engulfed boats in New Jersey and Westchester in separate incidents overnight that saw two people dead and three hospitalized, according to officials.

Newark police received a call about two adult females trapped inside a burning boat in an alleyway near 20 Pennsy Place at about 8:45 p.m. Friday, according to Carmen Martin, the public information officer for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

The two females – who remain unidentified – were taken to University Hospital, where they were pronounced dead, Martin said.

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