RedactedNarrative: On Saturday, March 28th, 2020, at approximately 1700 hours, Game Warden and I were working a COVID-19 complaint at the sandbar between the mouth of Cedar Creek and Wolfs Thick boat ramp on Lake Blackshear.  
  
  We observed smoke coming from a vessel just south of the sandbar.  When we arrived on scene, we noticed a small vessel with an outboard motor smoldering.  Subject was spraying the smoldering vessel with his Personal Watercraft (PWC) to extinguish the vessel fire.  All 5 occupants from the burnt vessel had been picked up by subject2 who was boating nearby.  All 5 occupants jumped into the water when the vessel caught fire and no one was injured. 
  
  The burnt vessel was a Larson boat with a South Carolina Registration Number SC-1026-CB.  Operator said when he attempted to start the outboard motor the rear of the vessel burst into flames.  Operator said he and the other 4 occupants jumped into the water and were picked up by a nearby vessel.  He said a subject on a PWC began spraying his vessel in an attempt to extinguish the flames. 
  
  Subject4 said he was pulling his son on a tube on Lake Blackshear when he observed a cloud of white smoke approximately half a mile away coming from the rear of a small vessel.   Subject4 said he realized the engine compartment was on fire and the boat was sitting still.  Subject4 said when he pulled up to the burning vessel all the occupants were in the water and hanging on to an inflatable tube.  All the occupants from the burnt vessel boarded his vessel.  A friend of Operator transported all occupants of Operator’s vessel to the Crisp Power Dam boat ramp. Friend towed the burned vessel to the Crisp Power Dam boat ramp and loaded it on the trailer.  The burnt vessel was removed from Lake Blackshear.