A houseboat has gone up in flames off Palm Beach in Sydney's north this afternoon, disturbing the normally peaceful oasis with a cloud of black smoke. 9News
region and with a fee upward of $1800 per night, was totally destroyed by the blaze.
Despite efforts from firefighters who circled the vessel with hoses and onlookers who tried to help, it could not be saved and is now nothing but a skeleton structureFirefighters were forced into boats to battle fierce flames and clouds of black smoke from afar. " very lucky, it could have been a different story and it's very lucky they weren't on when it started because by all account the fire progressed very fast," Ron James from the NSW RFS said.
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