Body discovered after boat on trailer catches fire in Brooklyn: NYPD
A man was found dead after a boat sitting on a trailer caught fire in Brooklyn early Saturday, police said.
Firefighters responding to the 4:54 a.m. blaze in a fenced-in property on Conover St. near Beard St. in Red Hook — about a block from the Erie Basin and Pier 44 — found the white boat on fire, cops said.
Witnesses first called 911 reporting a dumpster fire, FDNY officials said. But when firefighters arrived, they realized the fire was coming from a boat on a trailer.
The fire had just been put out when firefighters made the grisly discovery: a man’s body on the boat.
The man died at the scene, officials said. Cops were trying to identify him Saturday.
The FDNY Fire Marshal was trying to determine what sparked the fire.
An autopsy has been scheduled to determine just how the man died.
