RedactedNarrative: On 8-3-2019 I, Deputy and my partner Deputy, responded to a call for a boat on fire. Deputy and Shoshone County Fire were on scene before we arrive. Shoshone Fire had extinguished the fire before we arrived on scene. I talked to the primary operators. 
  
  They informed me that the boat was still attached to the trailer and they were loading the boat into the water, when the fire started. They had been operating on the Coeur d'Alene River all day and had exited to get fuel. They were returning the boat to the water, as the boat was entering the water Subject informed me that she turned the key and heard a poof sound in the engine compartment. Subject said she moved her daughter and her niece from on top of the engine compartment and moved them off the boat. 
  
  Operator informed me that he then opened the compartment and flames engulfed the boat. He indicated that he attempted to get a fire extinguisher but the flames spread too quickly. Operator said that his wife was telling him to exit the boat, Operator stated that after he exited the boat he pushed it off his trailer into the water, to keep the fire from spreading. 
  
  We took pictures of the boat when they removed it from the water, Shoshone Fire was worried about the fuel still in the boat reigniting and moved it to a safe distance to monitor it with one of their engines. After talking with all those on the boat there were no reported injuries and the boat was the only vessel that inured damage. The source of the fire is unknown but the fire was reported to have started in the engine compartment.
  