Pair escape burning boat on Columbia

In this photo released by the Coast Guard, a vessel burns near Jim Crow Point, Wash., on the Columbia River on April 26, 2009.

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By Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two people escaped from a boat that caught fire on the Columbia River up river from Astoria.

The U.S. Coast Guard says the owner of the 33-foot pleasure boat reported the fire Sunday morning. He and the other person aboard got into a life raft and floated away from the flames.

A Good Samaritan in another boat picked them up and took them to Skamokawa in southwest Washington.

A Coast Guard crew formed a 300-yard safety zone around the burning boat.

There were no injuries.

The cause of the fire has not been released.
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