Coast Guard: Fire on Gulf Oil Platform; 28 Workers Evacuated

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No injuries were reported. Workers were evacuated by an offshore supply vessel that reported the fire at 2:50 a.m. Friday in state waters near Breton Island off Louisiana's southeastern coast, the Coast Guard said in a news release.

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Texas Petroleum Investment Company, the owner and operator of the platform, estimated no more than 120 barrels of crude oil — about 5,040 gallons — were stored on the platform. Coast Guard officials had earlier worried that storage tanks on the platform were filled to their capacity of 168,000 gallons.

Production on the platform was shut down. The Coast Guard said a light sheen of oil could be seen along a more than one-mile stretch of water.

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God dammit! First them asian tigershramp eating all my shramp. Then that BP killin off all my damn shramp. Now this again? I want my shramp! Stop killing off my shramp god dammit. I was talking to eddie down at the dock, hes my shramp guy no big deal, he said the odder day he said he was on his boat when a gentlemen approcahed him. He asked eddie for some free shramp. Eddie said you aint get no free shramp. come back with three fifty. when the guy turned around eddie realized hey that aint no man! that the god dammed lochness monster. Now we got that eating all out damn shramp too god dammit.

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