Fire officials rescued two people from a boat that was on fire near the Queen Mary this afternoon.

It’s not clear why the 26-foot vessel caught fire, but firefighters and lifeguards rushed to it around 2 p.m., Long Beach Fire Department Capt. Jack Crabtree said.

There was heavy smoke coming from the motorboat and rescuers quickly got the two people aboard onto a fire vessel, according to Crabtree. Neither was seriously hurt.

Firefighters had the flames out within about 15 minutes and began towing the boat back to a mooring, Crabtree said.

Jeremiah Dobruck is executive editor of the Long Beach Post where he oversees all day-to-day newsroom operations. In his time working as a journalist in Long Beach, he’s won numerous awards for his investigative reporting and editing. Before coming to the Post in 2018, he wrote for publications including the Press-Telegram, Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times. Reach him at [email protected] or @jeremiahdobruck on Twitter.