RedactedNarrative: On 1/13/2020, at 1:15 am, MCSO received a call in reference to a boat fire. The location was in Boot Key Harbor between 30th st and West of the flat West of City Marina.
  
  The reporting party said there was no one on the vessel. She said the vessel belonged to a friend of hers that was deceased. Reporting party husband went to vessel to try and put it out. He was unsuccessful. 
  
  Coast guard arrived and observed a smaller fishing vessel that had caught fire as well, attached to the burning sailboat. They removed it from the sailboat and tried to put out that fire. They were unsuccessful and the vessel sank. Coast guard advised that the vessel was not a hazard to navigation. The decision was made between Coast Guard and MCSO to allow the sailboat to burn to the water line rather than risk trying to put it out.
  
  On 8/14/20 I went to the location of the fire and photographed the remains of the hull. I asked some people in the area if they knew where the smaller vessel had sunk. One of the people in the area said at the corner buoy. I searched the corner buoy area and all of the surrounding area and was unable to locate the smaller vessel.
  
  
  V1 caught fire unknown how.
  V2 was attached to V1
  V2 caught fire from V1
  V2 was removed from V1 by Cost Guard and they tried to put out the fire.
  The attempt failed and V2 sank.
  V1 burned to the water line.
  
  
  Neither vessel is a hazard to navigation.
  