RedactedNarrative: On 08/15/2017 at around 14:40 Operator and a mechanic were taking Operator''s boat out of the no wake zone at Tims Ford Marina.  Mechanic had been working on the engine and had found two plug wires that were switched and were going to drive the boat to see if it was running better after he had fixed that.  
  
  Before they made it out of the no wake zone they noticed that they could smell fuel and soon after there was an explosion and the boat caught on fire.  Mechanic used two fire extinguishers on the fire but it kept coming back when he put it out.  
  
  Mechanic said that the fire appeared to be coming out from under the port side motor. They both said that there was a Halon fire extininguisher system on the boat that did not go off.  After using the two fire extinguishers and being unable to put out the fire, both Operator and Mechanic jumped out of the boat and swam to the end of one of the docks that was around 30 yards away.  
  
  The boat drifted away from the marina with the wind and sat against shore and burned until the Franklin County Rescue Squad was able to tow it to Mansford Bridge so that the fire department could try to put the fire out by spraying water from their truck on the bridge.  There was no way for the fire department to get to the boat by land.  After it appeared that the fire was out, the rescue squad started pulling the boat back towards the marina and the boat caught on fire again.  As the fire department was trying again to put the fire out, the boat started to take on water and sank next to Mansford Bridge after burning for about an hour and half.  The boat was a total loss and based on what Operator told me I estimated the value of the boat to be around $40,000. 
  
  Based on what Operator and Mechanic told me about the fire, it is likely that it started because of some type of mechanical failure of the engine or fuel system caused a fuel leak around the port side motor.  I did not examine the boat because it burned for so long and sank.  I can not give a definitive cause of the fire because I did not examine the boat and determining exactly what caused a fire like this is outside of my area of training.
  