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Firefighters fight lobster vessel fire; wharf also damaged in blaze

A lobster fishing vessel at the wharf on the Town Point Wharf in Rockville, Yarmouth County, was destroyed by fire the afternoon of April 24. Firefighters from several departments fought the blaze that comes just over a month before the end of commercial lobster season. Other fishermen at the wharf – after moving their boats out of harm’s way away from the flames – then did what they could to help douse the fire on the boat and the wharf by circling around using hoses on their vessels. >click to read<09:29