MCINTOSH COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC/WALB) — A GoFundMe has launched after the shrimp boat Miss Kristin was declared a total loss in a fire Monday night, according to the McIntosh County Volunteer Fire Department. The department said crews responded to the fire at the Sea Gardens dock. Firefighters worked to salvage the boat before it was declared a total loss. Jamey Bennett, the boat’s captain, said he has operated Miss Kristin for about six and a half to seven years. >> MORE COVERAGE: Shrimp boat declared a ‘total loss’ after fire in McIntosh County << Bennett said he went to the dock that day to prepare the boat to go back to work when the weather broke. He said a man did welding on the boat’s rigging because the rigging was falling apart. Bennett said he and the man stayed at the dock for about an hour and a half to two hours after the work was completed. He then went home. He said he got a call around 10:30 p.m. Monday. “Your boat’s on fire,” Bennett said he was told. Bennett said he drove to the dock at about 80 to 90 miles per hour. He said he thought the damage might be something he could repair. “I figured it would have been, you know, something I could save and just do a little bit of woodwork and put her back together to go back to work,” Bennett said. “But when I hit the corner, it was … she was already gone. The fire was already too hot and started spreading all over the boat.” Bennett said he is trying to move forward after the loss. “All I can do is just try to push…
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