NEW ORLEANS - The Coast Guard says its crews and a good Samaritan rescued 35 people from a houseboat that got water in the engine room during a storm.

It says nobody was hurt in the incident Saturday night on Lake Pontchartrain near the University of New Orleans.

Petty Officer Lora Ratliff says the Coast Guard was called shortly before 9:30 p.m. from a houseboat that was tied to pilings on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway when a storm hit.

Officials say one Coast Guard boat crew and a good Samaritan evacuated the houseboat. A second Coast Guard crew pumped out the boat and towed it to a marina.

Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish, 630-square-mile estuary averaging 12 to 15 feet deep.