RedactedNarrative: On September 3, 2018 I received a call from Sgt. about a boat that had caught on fire at Emerald Isle Marina on September 2, 2018. The vessel that caught on fire was a 2007 Maxum 2400 SE cabin cruiser with Kentucky registration number 0518 HT. The owner of the vessel, stated that the boat caught on fire around 11:00 am in his slip at Emerald Isle Marina. More specifically, the boat was on row three behind the gazebo in slip (GPS coordinates Lat: 37.285828 Long: -85.305787). Subject was helping out the Emerald Isle Marina due to the holiday weekend. He stated that he was working out front of the dock when he saw a big cloud of smoke coming from row three behind the marina and had realized that the smoke was coming from his boat.
  	Subject wife, stated that around 10:45 am she went to the marina to get breakfast and told her son and his friend to stay on the boat while she went to the restaurant. She stated that she was at the marina for about 15 minutes when she tried to call her son’s friend, and that they didn’t answer. She then got up to leave and go check on them when she looked out of the marina window and saw her son and his friend standing in front of the window. Her son and his friend then came into the marina and ate ice cream while Subject’s wife ate her breakfast. While she was waiting on her son and his friend to finish their ice cream, she heard Subject, who was in the kitchen at the marina, say that their boat was on fire. She then had two of the waitresses watch the boys while she went to help attend to the boat.
  	 Subject2 stated that he ran to the slip where Subject's boat was to extinguish the fire.  Also to make sure everyone was at a safe distance from the boat in case they couldn’t get the fire out then they could move the boat away from the marina and other boats. Once they were at the boat, they opened up the doors to the cabin and started putting water on the fire with a water hose and used a fire extinguisher to put the fire out. After they got the fire out, they took the boat to the ramp to load the boat on Subject's trailer. Once the boat was on the trailer they pulled it to the parking lot and waited around the boat to make sure the fire did not start up again. Subject stated that it looked like the main breaker was the start of the fire because it appeared to be the hottest point of the fire.
  
   On September 6, 2018 I went to the boat in the marina parking lot to take pictures of the boat and to finish my investigation. In conclusion, it does appear that the fire did start at the main breaker due to it appearing to be the hottest part of the fire. The fire then went up the left side of the cabin back into the sleeping area of the boat and then over to the bathroom straight across from the breaker panel. The boat was pronounced a total loss by Progressive insurance company.
  
  *** There was no one on board at the time of the fire
  ***No other witness saw the boat on fire
  *** No one was wearing PFD
  *** No Injuries
  *** All times are EST