It happened just after 8 p.m. Saturday near the east end of Hart Island as Marine 4, an FDNY boat, was doing routine patrols in the Long Island Sound and Eastchester Bay.

The rest swam to Hart Island, he said. FDNY Marine Units responded to reports of a boat fire near City Island in the Bronx. (X/FDNY) Marine 6 then arrived to extinguish the flames.

A boat fire near Hart Island forced nearly two dozen people into the water Saturday night. One person was in critical condition and another was charged with DWI, police in New York City said.

Twenty-two people were rescued after a boat burst into flames in the Bronx near Hart Island Saturday evening, FDNY sources and local Council member Kristy Marmorato’s office said.