Eight dead in US boat dock blaze: fire chief

Eight people were killed in a late night fire that swept through docked boats on a lake in the southern US state of Alabama, the local fire chief said Monday. “At this point, I can confirm eight fatalities,” said Gene Necklaus, the fire chief of Scottsboro, Alabama, a town of 14,000 on the banks of Guntersville Lake where the blaze broke out. Necklaus had earlier said eight people were missing.