RedactedNarrative: On the 5th of July 2022 I received a call from dispatch that a boat was on fire off Randa Trail in Rhea County and that the fire departmentt was enroute. I advised dispatch that I would be enroute and I called Rhea County 911 to ask for further information. Rhea County 911 advised me that a juvenile had suffered some injuries from the fire and that they were sending an ambulance to the scene. I advised TWRA dispatch that this would be a boating incident with Injuries. 
  
  	Once on scene I contacted the operator and his friend who had been parking the vehicle after he assisted with launching the vessel. The operator stated that he was trying to start the motor on his vessel when he smelled smoke and could heard crackling noises coming from under the engine cowling. 
  
  	Operator further stated that when he opened the hood of the engine cowling that he could see the engine on fire and that he started throwing everything flammable out of the boat. While Operator was throwing items out of the boat a gas can that caught fire splashed fuel onto Operator’s shirt which caused him to get minor burns on his chest. Operator also dropped a battery on his right foot while trying to remove it from the vessel causing a contusion or possible fracture of his right foot.
   
  	The Rhea County ambulance service treated Operator on scene for his burns and offered to transport him to the hospital to which Operator refused under the advice of his mother who had arrived on scene. After the Fire Department had extinguished the fire Operator and subject loaded the vessel back on the trailer and left with legal guardians.
  