A day at the docks turned dangerous on Saturday as a boat exploded at the Miss Croix Yacht Harbor fuel dock in Prescott, Wisconsin.
“We were sitting on the back of the boat and heard a loud bang,” Steve Schiller, a boater from nearby Hastings, Minnesota, told WCCO News. “Next thing you know the boat is smoldering and people are jumping off the back of the boat and within five minutes it turned into big flames.”
Dramatic video taken by Schiller and other witnesses show the billowing plumes of smoke at the harbor, which sits exactly where the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers meet. There were hundreds of nearby vessels either docked at nearby marinas or traveling up and down stream…