RedactedNarrative: Operator was attempting to start engine when there was a flash fire/explosion in the engine compartment. A flame shot out of the engine compartment causing burns top the legs of three passenger's legs. 
  
  The fire continued to burn and spread throughout the vessel, causing damage/consuming the interior of the vessel and part of the exterior of the vessel. The growing fire made the occupants of vessel one jump overboard into the Erie Canal.