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The Steamboat Natchez, the iconic New Orleans-based sternwheeler built in 1975, caught fire the night of May 3 while moored in the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal. The New Orleans Fire Department deployed to the Natchez shortly after 8 p.m. and began battling a fire in the vicinity of the vessel's engineroom. According to local media reports, construction crews had been at work in the engineroom earlier that day. "They are still investigating the cause," said Adrienne Thomas with the New Orleans Steamboat Company. "Right now, a cost has not been determined. The fire department and Coast Guard arrived so quickly that the fire was rather contained on the bottom deck in the electrical room." |