RedactedNarrative: On June 27, 2020 at approximately 0900 I, Officer of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) was on water patrol in my marked (FWC) patrol vessel when I received a call from my dispatch about a vessel fire in Panama City Pass. When I arrived at the location I noticed a vessel displaying Florida registration (FL 5093 MU) floating and no one onboard with its engine compartment open and four people onboard another vessel. 
  
  I pulled up to that vessel and asked if anyone owner that vessel a female spoke up and said it was her vessel.  I asked who was onboard and she said herself and two friends.  I then asked them to come aboard my patrol vessel and they climbed aboard. While I was doing my investigation I noticed the vessel getting close to shore so I pulled up to the vessel and towed it to Grand Lagoon and waited on Sea tow.  
  
  While I was waiting I got the owners information. I then asked who was operating the vessel the time the fire had started.  A white male spoke up and said he was driving. I asked what had happen? 
  
  Operator gave me a written statement the read " While going across the pass, we lost power and smoke started pouring out of the engine compartment. There no previous signs of problems when we left Pirates Cove." I then asked if someone had used the fire extinguisher. The owner of the vessel said she did. After Sea tow arrived I turned the vessel over to them and transported the passengers to Pirates Cove marina. I waited at Pirates Cove Marina for Sea tow and when they arrived I took pictures of the vessel and engine compartment. No further action taken.
  