CAPE COD, Massachusetts (WBZ) — A family swam to an island off the coast of Cape Cod and spent two nights there waiting for help after their boat caught fire early this week.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the family of three was rescued Wednesday morning after becoming stranded on Naushon Island. All three were seriously injured.

“Disasters at sea are often pretty terrifying, but to hear one especially like this, right here, we don’t really get that,” said Falmouth resident Eric Frost.

Coast Guard officials said the Sullivan family departed from Eel Pond near Falmouth, Massachusetts Friday on their boat named Third Wave. In a statement from the family, they said they had been asleep early Tuesday morning when the family’s dog started barking, alerting them to a fire. By that time, the boat

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