Boat fire on a Minnesota lake extinguished by a citizen with a Flyboard

CROSS LAKE, Minn. -- A boat fire caused quite a scene on a northern Minnesota lake Saturday afternoon and it wasn't just the smoke and flames that caught people's attention. A flyboard was used to extinguish the flames on Cross Lake. Paul Gavic, who owns Sky High Flyboard, says he and his sons were at their cabin when they noticed a boat on fire across the lake. His boys went to assist and and it took one of them about two minutes to put out the fire using the water propelled from his flyboard. The occupants of the boat managed to escape to a nearby pontoon and no injuries were reported. Gavic says the Cross Lake Fire Department helped with the cleanup. Flyboards are skateboard-like contraptions that use water pumped through a jet ski to elevate into the air.