RedactedNarrative: On October 31, 2017 at around 16:45 a boat fire was called into Fannin County Dispatch. Fire Fighters arrived on scene but the boat was a total loss. The boat in question is a homemade houseboat. There are several similar houseboats on Blue Ridge Lake. Some of these houseboats have been registered in Georgia but not all of them. I (Cpl. with DNR-LED) arrived on scene a few days after the fire and I could not find any identifiers of the vessel in the remains. I noticed the houseboat had been moved to this cove on Blue Ridge Lake approximately a year ago. It appeared as if it had been abandoned on the shoreline of U.S. National Forest Property. Unfortunately, this has been common with other old houseboats and boat docks. Due to flood control, TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)  lowers the water level every winter. This caused the houseboat to be sitting on the lake bed and completely out of water. The houseboat could be accessed by anyone who walked through public property (National Forest) or dove up in another boat. At this time, it is unclear who the homemade houseboat belonged to and what started the fire. The investigation will be suspended until further information is obtained. End of report.