RedactedNarrative: On thursday september 10, 2020 at approximately three o'clock in the afternoon, operator was operating his vessel, an 18 foot hydra sports vector on flat swamp creek upstream from the highway 8 bridge with his pet dog.  
  
  The weather was partly cloudy and calm approximately 80 degrees fahrenheit.  As he was operating southwest in the main channel towards his dock, the vessel's outboard motor began to miss.  
  
  He put the vessel in neutral and then back in forward idle.  As the vessel began to move forward at idle speed, there was an explosion within the outboard engine cowling (cover) on the port side which then ignited the cowling and other components within the engine cowling.  
  
  The engine was a 1999 evenrude 115 2 stroke.  Operator used his fire extinguisher on the fire but was unable to put it out.  He then grabbed a type iv pfd and jumped into the water with his dog.  Operator and his dog were rescued by another boater and a bass boat in the area sprayed water on the fire using it's propeller and extinguished the fire.  There were no injuries reported.  Damages include a burnt outboard motor and burnt fiberglass on the port stern of the vessel.  The engine was a total loss but the fiberglass damage is repairable.  Alcohol and drugs were not a factor.
  
  
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