LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – Almost three weeks after a raging fire at Lake Mead, most of the 37 burnt boats have come back to the surface while their owners are still clueless about what ignited it in the first place.
Torn and battered, they sit on the decline to the Las Vegas Boat Harbor Marina that first sank in the early morning of June 9. The marina said 11 vessels were destroyed and another 26 were damaged.
Judy Roman and her partner own three of them: two small boats and one 56-foot-long houseboat she described as her “home base” that housed a security camera c apturing the moments flames reached it. The two small vessels, now seared and discolored, were retrieved.
“My nieces would come down. We’d play with it. My daughters, and— it’s all gone now,” Roman said Friday morning, looking over her wrecked two-seater boat sitting on dirt. “For me, it’s painstaking.”
