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March 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Firefighters will be ill-equipped to tackle major marine fires in Melbourne for at least another year, the city’s fire chief says.
Fire crews struggled to put out a blaze on a 28-metre luxury cruiser at the Yarra’s Edge marina at Docklands late on Wednesday afternoon.
Firefighters had access only to a dinghy and a small hose as they tried in vain to douse the fire, which burned for more than three hours and sent smoke billowing through the city.
The boat’s owners, who had sailed the cruiser from Queensland, had just filled the tank with 4000 litres of fuel when they saw smoke, and flames quickly engulfed the vessel, the Metropolitan Fire Brigade said.
The four people on board escaped unharmed and firefighters tied the cruiser off to prevent damage to other boats.
The blaze was extinguished only when flames burned down to the waterline, the MFB said.
The brigade has secured $10 million for a larger firefighting boat but it could take 12-18 months before such a craft was in action, its chief officer Shane Wright said on Thursday.
“It’s not just about buying boats, there’s a whole series of training initiatives that need to be put in place,” Mr Wright told Fairfax Radio Network.
Red tape had stalled the introduction of a new vessel, with two proposed firefighting boats having been rejected by authorities in recent months after being deemed unsafe, Mr Wright said.
Investigators will spend Thursday trying to determine what caused the fire.
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