I really appreciate the offer, 1 thing that this experience has taught us is that there are good people like you in the world!

Hi all, just wanted to update everybody on the accident. It has been several months since the accident but thought that I would include a picture of my wife’s leg taken the day after the accident, I will leave the pictures of the kids out. It’s definitely worse than just “burnt hair” as stated by a callous person who was indirectly involved with the fire but was there. The good news is that everybody is healing well but with some scarring. I just heard through the grapevine that “Captain Rick” lost his charter license buts that’s just hearsay at this point. If that’s what it takes to keep somebody else safe than great. I just wish my parents would realize that you cant fix somebody who is their own worst enemy and move on.

We would like to thank you and Brian for the thoughts and prayers! Our friends, family and good people like you have been great.

All,
This is Jerry, it was my family on the boat. I will keep this short but wanted to update this. There was an explosion and then fire when the engine fired up. My wife has been released with 2nd degree burns on both her arms and legs (from ankles to knees and wrists to elbows). My 13 year old son has also been released from HCMC burn ward with 2nd degree burns on both legs (from ankles to knees and 1 arm from wrist to elbow). My 10 year old daughter has 2nd degree burns on her right leg and I have 2nd degree burns to my ankle, wrist and fingers. We are extremely lucky that it wasn’t worse than it is as my parents were also on board at the time. For whatever reason an ambulance,the fire department or sheriff were not called? I drove my family to the hospital in Aitkin (I will not get into why the ambulance or sheriff or fire department hadn’t been called at this point). The Aitkin hospital staff was amazing and I cant tell them enough how much we appreciate it!!! From there my wife and son were transported to the HCMC burn ward. After things settled down I called the Aitkin County Sheriffs department to file a report. We are at home and starting the healing process which is going to take some time. For obvious reasons I will not go any further into the details but again wanted to clear things up. Thanks