RedactedNarrative: On June 26, 2015 at approximately 1020 hrs I responded to a May Day on VHF Ch. 16 for a boat on fire at Dobbins Island, Magothy River. I was on my patrol vessel at the time and arrived on scene approximately 15 minutes later. I was the first emergency personnel on scene. The vessel on fire was fully engulfed in flames when I arrived. The owner of the vessel was onboard an inflatable dingy a few hundred feet away from the burning vessel. I secured Owner's dingy to my patrol vessel and he climbed aboard. I confirmed that Owner was the owner of the vessel and that no persons were unaccounted for. Owner was the only person on the vessel prior to the fire. He was emotionally distraught but was uninjured.
  
  The vessel is a 2008 30' 8 " Chaparral 290 Signature bearing registration MD 7099 BZ. 
  
  I asked Owner what events took place before the fire. He told me that the Chaparral was anchored and he used the inflatable dingy to set crab traps nearby. While on the Chaparral he used the electric stove in the vessel's cabin to cook bacon for breakfast. He said once the bacon was finished cooking he turned the stove off, left the bacon on the pan, and then boarded his dingy to go check his crab traps. Owner stated that a few minutes after he left on the dingy from the Chaparral he noticed that it was on fire. 
  
  Owner told me that the vessel's generator and cabin air conditioner were turned on prior to the fire.
  
  A Baltimore City Fire Department fireboat, Anne Arundel Fire Department fireboat, and a U.S. Coast Guard vessel extinguished the fire. TowBoat U.S. salvaged the vessel, which was kept afloat, and towed it to Ferry Point Marina on the Magothy River.
  
  I transported Owner and his dingy on my patrol vessel to the residence where he kept the Chaparral on the Upper Magothy River. 
  
  All events occurred in Anne Arundel County, Maryland...
   