The woman died after the Coast Guard rescued a family stranded on an island after escaping a boat fire

A woman has died a day later US Coast Guard She and two family members who were stranded on a remote Massachusetts island were rescued when their boat caught fire while anchored in a bay Monday night.

Cynthia Sullivan, 73, died Thursday from injuries she sustained in the incident, according to a Facebook post shared Friday by a family member, Boston 25 News Reported.

The family dog ​​that alerted Cynthia Sullivan and her husband Patrick, 72, and their 37-year-old son, Tyler, to sleep in their 30-foot powerboat The Third Wave, also died in the fire.

The Sullivans swam to Naushon Island – a small island about four miles from Martha’s Vineyard – after they woke up to a raging fire.

Burnt and injured, the trio took refuge in a barn on the island, where they spent more than 24 hours until their marine radio washed ashore Wednesday morning, allowing Tyler to call for help.

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The U.S. Coast Guard this week rescued a family of three stranded by helicopter on a deserted Massachusetts island after they were forced to swim there after their boat caught fire, the agency said. (USCG)

“Mayday, mayday, mayday, our ship has gone down in Tarpaulin Cove,” Tyler is heard saying in a Coast Guard radio transmission. “Our ship burned while we slept, and we barely escaped.”

A coast guard A helicopter rescue team soon arrived and took the family to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis.

A family member reported the Sullivans missing when they didn’t come home Tuesday and calls to their cellphones, which went down with the boat, went straight to voicemail.

Several agencies searched the area Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning and were unable to locate them Accurate pings Until reaching a handheld radio Tyler recovered from the family’s submerged phone, according to the Coast Guard.

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The Coast Guard took the family to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. (USCG)

In Facebook PostChris Sullivan remembers his mother and provides updates on his father and “hero” brother.

“She passed in peace. As she passed we played her some John Mellencamp, a favorite of hers, she loved it,” Sullivan wrote. “It’s hurt more than anything I could have ever imagined, I’m leaning on my close friends and family and my two young children. We’ll get through this together.

“My dad is awake and breathing on his own. My brother saved them both, he was able to get them off the boat in a very chaotic situation, don’t want to call him a hero, but he is. Again, thanks for everyone’s support, it means the world.”

The island is four miles from Martha’s Vineyard. (John Grimm/Lightrocket via Getty Images)

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“The family was able to survive and call for help because of quick thinking and quality equipment,” Scott Backholm, search and rescue coordinator for Coast Guard Sector Southeast New England, said in a statement. “Seafarers are encouraged to have first aid training and their vessels are equipped with appropriate safety equipment.”

The Sullivans had left nearby FalmouthMassachusetts, last Friday and was scheduled to return Tuesday afternoon.