Gas spills into river after collision near Delaware coast
About 152000 gallons of gasoline spilled from the barge Ocean 192 after a collision with the tug Independence and the Panama flag Faith I tanker four miles off the Delaware coast. No injuries reported. Tanker cargo intact. pollution expected to evaporate. a 16 by 19 mile safety zone was reduced as cleanup not planned.
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Lewes
Del
Delaware River
Marcus Hook
Coast Guard
Delaware
New Jersey
Steve Gilbert
Philadelphia
Guard
Faith I
Coast Eagle Point
Independence
Ocean 192
Boston
Gilbert
Maritrans, Inc
Wilmington
Pete Hoffman
Delaware Bay
Wallem Shipmavement
Panama
Transpetrol
Brussels
Belgium
Marstrans
Big Stone
Bouy 19
Hoffman
Harrowing river rescue by Eddystone fire boat crew
On a snowy frigid afternoon two teens drift in a rusty tub toward the Delaware River near Ridley Creek. A freighter reports them to the U S Coast Guard and the Eddystone Fire Rescue Boat saves them. The crew relies on in kind donations to operate and provide coastwise rescue, pollution control and fires with no government funding.
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Andi Geter
Daily Times
E Stone
Ridley Creek
Delaware
Eddystone
Bob Gliem
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast O ' the County Radio Room
Gliem
Boeing Helicopters
Crum Creek
Fire Company
Philadelphia Electric
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Aubrey C. Powers
The
Associated Press
Eddystone Fire Rescue
Ponns and Thomas
Penn Terminal Co
Penn
Penns and
Thomas
Sibbiti Beliss
Art Crisie
Peter A. Zinner