Some of the rubber bearing pads have been damaged by the heat of the fire, to replace will need jacks or a crane to lift the bridge deck up to allow the damaged pads to be replaced.
People who don't license their boats, tend not to bother with insurance, it is the same with some car or van owners who don't bother with paying the VED, or getting a MOT.
No one was living aboard, much of the inside had been removed and dumped beforehand, The name and index number had been removed. The boat was about to be taken anyway by the Middle Level for non payment, a 7day legal notice had been fixed to the boat a few days before, So they no longer owned it.
The picture was clearly taken before the fire engines arrived from March Station (3 or 4 minuites). No fireman would let someone stand that close to a raging fire to take a picture. They were standing at the bottom of the steps which go up the bank to join the West End road.
They claim on the Gofundme page that "someone has set my houseboat on fire". Yet they told the fire service that 'the cause of the fire was accidental'. Either have they lost everything other than the boat which is longer thiers anyway.
Cambs Fire Service incident report.
It is belived among the people who watch the fire from the marina bankside that these two set fire to the boat themselves as a scam. When they runout of money to refit.
It's both, there are two of them. It is a fact of life that people tend to give more to a gofund page when it is a woman.