Accident involving a pleasure boat in Long Beach leaves one dead and ten hospitalized

At least one person is dead and 10 others are hospitalized after a boat described by authorities as a 48-foot pleasure craft with 11 passengers on board crashed in the waters off Long Beach on Wednesday evening.

Long Beach Fire Department crews responded to the pier area in Los Alamitos Bay shortly before 9:30 p.m. after receiving reports that a vessel had struck the rocks, capsized and taken on water, Long Beach Fire Department officials confirmed to KTLA.

When the rescue services arrived on the scene, it was determined that it was an incident with many injuries.

Aerial footage of the incident captured by Sky5 showed a large number of first responders as victims were rescued and loaded into ambulances that took them to area hospitals.

Details of the crash are extremely scant and it is unclear what exactly caused the ship to collide with the rocks, but authorities told KTLA that speed likely played a role and that a victim, estimated to be only 40 to 50 years old, was pronounced dead on board the vessel.

Five other passengers had to be rescued, authorities added.

A total of ten patients were hospitalized, seven in stable condition and three in critical condition.

Further details were not immediately available.