Boothbay volunteer firefighters used a boat, buckets, rakes and a portable pump to quickly control a woods fire on a small East Boothbay island Saturday afternoon, Aug. 24.

Fire Chief Dick Spofford said the blaze was quickly controlled once firefighters reached the island. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.

Fire and heavy smoke coming from a small wooded island located in a pond known locally as The Marsh startled the quiet Murray Hill neighborhood. No one lives on the island.

Spofford’s crew, backed up by Boothbay Harbor firefighters, used the department’s rescue skiff to ferry volunteers, equipped with back packs with hand pumps, to the island. There they used a chain saw, rakes, hand tools, buckets and finally a portable pump to deliver water to the blaze.