Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — At a Port of Port Angeles commission meeting Monday, Executive Director Jeff Robb thanked everyone who helped after a Jan. 31 boat explosion at John Wayne Marina.
Keith R. Bryant, 78, died Feb. 8 at Harborview Medical Center of Seattle of the injuries he sustained in a propane explosion on his boat in the marina on Sequim Bay.
“It was a tragedy in all respects,” Commissioner Jim Hallett said.
In a letter to the port, the state Department of Ecology praised the response of port employees and other agencies, which included Clallam County Fire District 3, the U.S. Coast Guard, the John Wayne Marina harbormaster and assistant harbormaster, Robb said.
“It was a well-coordinated effort from our crews,” he said.
Robb said there was damage to vessels on both sides of the Bryant’s 38-foot boat, and the port is working with insurance companies representing a “multitude of vessels” damaged in the explosion.
Ecology has not released a report on the ecological extent of damage or of any fines to be assigned.
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