By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI, ATF and U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday raided the Santa Barbara offices of a diving company that owns the boat that caught fire off the California coast and killed 34 people on Labor Day.
Federal agents also served warrants to search two boats owned by the company, Truth Aquatics, the Los Angeles Times first reported.
Authorities have been trying to determine the cause of the fire and why no one below the deck was able to escape. The only survivors were a captain and four crew members, who were on deck when the fire broke out shortly after 3 a.m.
No one was arrested during the raids as investigators snapped photos and seized boxes.
“You can only do so much with your basic investigative efforts, and at some point you have to use a search warrant as the means to collect information,” Lt. Eric Raney of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office told the Times.
