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LONDON, Ky. (AP) - An arson investigator has been sent to the Holly Bay Marina on Laurel River Lake where three houseboats caught fire.

A police spokesman said the U.S Forestry Service contacted the London police post and requested the investigator.

Officials in Laurel County say the fire started Friday morning. Randy Lawson, manager at Holly Bay, told the Lexington Herald-Leader a night watchman spotted the fire about 6:30 a.m. About three hours later, the fires were extinguished except for some hot spots.

Lawson said marina workers pulled the burning boats out of the slips so they would not set fire to other boats.

Bald Rock Fire Chief Doug Creech told The Times-Tribune that four other boats received very moderate cosmetic damage and apparently no one was on either of the boats at the time the fire broke out.

The three houseboats, each between 60 and 80 feet long, were reduced to the frames.

Firefighters are concerned some fuel from the boats could have leaked into the lake. Forestry officials were looking into notifying the Environment Protection Agency as a precaution.

There were no injuries, and the cause of the fires had not been determined.

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