Crime & Safety
Houseboat Explosion On Lake Powell Leaves 1 Dead, 5 Hurt
Someone tried to start the generator in the Crystal Springs Canyon area when it exploded, the San Juan County's Sheriff's office said.
SALT LAKE CITY — A houseboat explosion along the Utah-Arizona border left a Colorado woman dead and five people hurt.
A generator exploded late Wednesday night as a large group of about 25 people were vacationing on a privately owned boat on Lake Powell, authorities said Thursday.
Someone tried to start the generator in the remote Crystal Springs Canyon area when it suddenly exploded, Sheriff Rick Eldredge of San Juan County, Utah, said in a statement. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)
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Kirsten Meyer , 52, of Castle Rock, Colorado, was killed, the National Park Service said Thursday and a boy suffered minor injuries. Four other people were critically hurt and were airlifted to hospitals in Colorado and Utah with burns, broken bones, and facial injuries.
A tragedy on Summer Paradise. This is a pic of the house boat before an explosion at Lake Powell that killed one and injured 5 others. pic.twitter.com/sOnhevYehR
— Kiersten V. Nuñez (@KierstenVNunez) July 13, 2017
Photo credit: Simon Allardice via Flickr/Creative Commons