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Watchman could have saved lives in California boat fire

by Stefanie DazioTom Krisher
| October 20, 2020 11:03 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The lack of a required night watchman aboard a scuba dive boat delayed the detection of a fast-moving fire that trapped and killed 34 people below deck as the vessel was anchored off the Southern California coast last year, federal investigators said Tuesday.

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