Oil platform fire: 11 still missing
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April 22, 2010, Thursday
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HELICOPTERS, ships and an airplane searched the Gulf of Mexico yesterday for at least 11 workers missing after an explosion and fire that left an offshore drilling platform tilting off Louisiana's coast.
Most of the 126 people were believed to have escaped safely after the explosion on the rig Deepwater Horizon on Tuesday night, Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty Officer Mike O'Berry said. The rig, about 84 kilometers southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, was listing about 10 degrees and still burning yesterday.
"It's burning pretty good and there's no estimate on when the fire will be put out," O'Berry said.
Seven workers were reported critically injured, Coast Guard Lieutenant Sue Kerver said. Two were taken to a trauma center in Alabama.
O'Berry said many workers who escaped the rig were being brought to land on a workboat while authorities searched the Gulf of Mexico.
"We're hoping everyone's in a life raft," he said.
Kerver said the Coast Guard and the Minerals Management Service will investigate the cause of the accident.
Most of the 126 people were believed to have escaped safely after the explosion on the rig Deepwater Horizon on Tuesday night, Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty Officer Mike O'Berry said. The rig, about 84 kilometers southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, was listing about 10 degrees and still burning yesterday.
"It's burning pretty good and there's no estimate on when the fire will be put out," O'Berry said.
Seven workers were reported critically injured, Coast Guard Lieutenant Sue Kerver said. Two were taken to a trauma center in Alabama.
O'Berry said many workers who escaped the rig were being brought to land on a workboat while authorities searched the Gulf of Mexico.
"We're hoping everyone's in a life raft," he said.
Kerver said the Coast Guard and the Minerals Management Service will investigate the cause of the accident.
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