RedactedNarrative: On the evening of June 24, 2017 around 1525 hours I, Officer of the Maryland Natural Resources Police, was on patrol in the area of the Commercial Harbor for a Joint Enforcement Agreement patrol.  We received a text alert through Ocean City Communications of a Personal Water Craft that was on fire in the area of the Atlantic Ocean and 1st street. We responded with emergency lights and sirens to the area and noticed United States Coast Guard to be on scene as well. We noticed two jet skis, one was on fire and one was occupied by two people. We asked the PWC with two males on it if there was any one else involved and they said there was not. 
  
  Operator1 told us that he was driving the PWC when he began to feel the seat getting very hot. He then noticed brown smoke coming out of it and the hatch to the front compartment was hot to the touch. Operator1 then boarded another PWC and gave distance between the two PWC's. Soon after, the PWC was engulfed in flames and that's when Coast Guard was arriving on scene.
  
   The remaining fuel was burned off within a few minutes and the PWC turned upside down. Boat US was called and pulled the boat to the boat ramp in West Ocean City. I had Operator1 follow our vessel to the boat ramp and received all the information on the incident. I did not find Operator1 to be in any sort of violation for the incident. Both subjects were wearing required personal floatation devices and had all required equipment on board. Operator1, the owner of both PWC's, estimated the damages to be about $3,000 and a total loss to the PWC that caught fire. 
   
    All events occurred in Worcester County, Maryland.