Rainy Lake houseboat rental business vows to reopen after fire kills 1, injures 2 A portion of the building was an older log structure, making the fire "hot and difficult to battle," according to ...

Finding a slip for a 70-foot boat isn’t always easy.” Minnesota has about 1,000 registered houseboats, many of them rental units on border waters such as Rainy Lake.

The business rents out houseboats to vacationers. Rainy Lake Guiding Firefighters arrived to find the main building fully engulfed.

Rainy Lake Houseboats encourages houseboating clients to download a map and GPS app that makes navigation easier, although all houseboat outfitters provide detailed paper maps for their clients.

1 dead in Rainy Lake houseboat resort fire Two other people were injured at Northernaire Houseboats on Wednesday night.

Fire destroyed a family-owned houseboat rental business on Rainy Lake in northern Minnesota, killing an 85-year-old woman and injuring her daughter and another family member, officials said Thursday.