RedactedNarrative: ON 06/26/2021 AT APPROXIMATELY 0927 HOURS, A BOATING INCIDENT OCCURRED IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY ON LAKE NORMAN. THE INCIDENT OCCURRED AT THE FUELING DOCK AT SAFE HARBOR KINGS POINT MARINA. THE ONLY VESSEL INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT WAS A 31-FOOT 6-INCH, 1996 SEA RAY SUNDANCER FIBERGLASS CABIN MOTORBOAT WITH 2 INBOARD MOTORS TOTALING 700 HP. THE VESSEL WAS OWNED BY OPERATOR. OPERATOR AND HIS WIFE, PASSENGER WERE BOTH ONBOARD AT THE TIME OF THE INCIDENT. 
  
  OPERATOR STATED THAT AROUND 0900 HOURS ON THE MORNING OF 06/26/21, HE AND HIS WIFE APPROACHED THE FUELING DOCK AT KINGS POINT MARINA. HIS WIFE BEGAN FUELING THE PORT SIDE FUEL TANK WITH GASOLINE WHILE HE UNLOADED THE WASTE PUMP. AFTER FILLING THE PORT SIDE WITH FUEL, HIS WIFE BEGAN FUELING THE STARBOARD SIDE OF THE VESSEL. FUEL BEGAN SHOOTING BACK OUT OF THE FUEL CAP ON THE STARBOARD SIDE SO THEY DECIDED TO TOP OFF THE PORT SIDE AND LEAVE THE STARBOARD SIDE AS IT WAS. PASSENGER COMPLETED THE FUELING AND BOARDED THE VESSEL TO TURN ON THE BLOWER WHICH RAN FOR APPROXIMATELY 7-10 MINUTES WHILE OPERATOR WAS PAYING FOR THE FUEL. 
  
  THE DECK HAND BEGAN UNTYING THE VESSEL TO ALLOW OPERATOR TO EXIT THE SLIP. OPERATOR STARTED BOTH ENGINES OF THE VESSEL WHILE THE VESSEL WAS BEING UNTIED. OPERATOR THEN PLACED THE VESSEL IN REVERSE TO GIVE THE VESSEL MOMENTUM OUT OF THE FUELING DOCK. OPERATOR PLACED THE VESSEL IN REVERSE AND THEN QUICKLY BACK TO NEUTRAL. HE HEARD A LOUD EXPLOSION AND PASSENGER WAS THROWN INTO THE AIR. OPERATOR IMMEDIATELY SAW SMOKE COMING FROM THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. PASSENGER LANDED INSIDE OF THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT AND SAW FLAMES IN THE ENGINE COMPARTMENT. OPERATOR WAS ABLE TO EXIT THE VESSEL ONTO THE DOCK. PASSENGER ATTEMPTED TO EXIT THE VESSEL BUT SLIPPED AND FELL INTO THE WATER. MARINA STAFF WERE ABLE TO HELP PASSENGER ONTO THE DOCK AND GET HER TO SAFETY. MARINA STAFF ATTEMPTED TO USE A FIRE EXTINGUISHER FROM THE FUEL DOCK TO PUT OUT THE FIRE WHICH WAS UNSUCCESSFUL. THERE WAS NO DAMAGE TO THE MARINA FUEL DOCK.
  
  CORNELIUS FIRE DEPARTMENT ARRIVED ON SCENE AT 0938. DENVER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND HUNTERSVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT ARRIVED ON SCENE SHORTLY AFTER TO ASSIST. NORTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ARRIVED ON SCENE AT APPROXIMATELY 0942 HOURS. THE FIRE WAS SUPPRESSED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND TRANSPORTED TO WORKHORSE MARINE TO BE STORED. 
  
  OPERATOR STATED THAT MINUTES AFTER THE FIRE BEGAN, THE HALON SYSTEM IN THE VESSEL WENT OFF BUT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL AT SUPPRESING THE FIRE. DUE TO THE CONDITION OF THE VESSEL, IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER THERE WERE PFDS ONBOARD BUT OPERATOR STATED THAT THERE WERE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF PFDS ONBOARD. PASSENGER WAS TAKEN TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM BY HER MOTHER ON THE NIGHT OF THE INCIDENT DUE TO PAIN IN HER FOOT BUT WAS TOLD BY DOCTORS THAT IT WAS A DEEP BRUISE AND THAT SHE DID NOT NEED ANY FURTHER TREATMENT. IT APPEARS THAT THE INCIDENT WAS CAUSED BY A SPILLED FUEL AND VAPOR BUILD-UP. ALCOHOL NOR DRUGS WERE A FACTOR AND NO ONE WAS CHARGED AS A RESULT OF THE INCIDENT.