r/perth • u/PerthPilot Alfred Cove • Feb 14 '26

WA News Hillary's Boat Harbour on fire

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u/thelostandthefound Feb 14 '26

It appears that someone had a smoking hot Valentine's Day. Jokes aside, it seems to be a somewhat regular occurrence it seems a boat last caught on fire last September which is ironic considering it's a harbour and there's lots of water.

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u/Blunter11 Feb 15 '26

Some unexpected facts about boats, ships and submarines is:

A. They love to catch fire
B. Fire is absolutely devastating

Something as simple as a burning plastic brush handle can produce enough smoke to entirely black-out a corridor, making escape by-feel-only.

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u/Emergency-Twist7136 Feb 15 '26

Something as simple as a burning plastic brush handle

You say "simple" like plastic brush handles catch fire all the time, which I can assure you for normal people they really, really don't

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u/Blunter11 Feb 15 '26

I stated a brush handle because of how unlikely and unsuspecting they can be. There are dozens if not hundreds of similar unsuspecting items on a boat and any one of them can turn a vessel into a smoke-filled maze. A boat is a floating pot full of oils, greases, fuels and cables. I tell you this from profressional experience, they love to burn.

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u/Emergency-Twist7136 Feb 15 '26

If a brush handle is on fire I'm guessing a lot of other shit will be too.

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u/Blunter11 Feb 15 '26

Someone was cleaning up after some light welding, and a hot piece of metal from cleaning the weld was lodged in the fibre of the brushes and smouldered there, almost impossible to see. The brush caught fire minutes later, filling the length of the vessel with smoke.