Grounded Freighter Spills Fuel in Alaska
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In this photo released by Unalaska Community Broadcasting, the two halfs of the Malaysian cargo ship Selendang Ayu sit on the rocks about 400-500 yards offshore in Skan Bay on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Island chain Thursday, Dec.
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Leaking propane from two 12,000-gallon tanks caught fire during a firefighter training exercise on the Salt Lake City International Airport grounds about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday.  The fire did not impact flights, said airport spokeswoman Barbara Gann.
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A rare break in rough Bering Sea weather is allowing officials to gain a better sense of damage from a large spill in the Aleutian Islands.
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An unforgiving Bering Sea thwarted efforts Friday to stem a major spill from a broken freighter and pollution responders mostly were limited to staging operations in preparation for a break in the weather.
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A Japanese tanker spilled about 1.4 million gallons of crude oil in the eastern Indian Ocean following a collision with a cargo ship, the tanker's operator said Tuesday.
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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ANCHORAGE--The Pacific Ocean route where a Malaysian freighter went aground and broke up is among the most heavily trafficked shipping routes in the world.
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Authorities checked for fuel leaks Saturday on a coal freighter run aground by a storm that brought flooding, landslides and blackouts in eastern Australia. Two people whose car was swept off a bridge were killed, and a family of five was missing.
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A disabled freighter loaded with tons of soybeans and a half million gallons of its own fuel was adrift Wednesday in the Bering Sea and in danger of grounding on Unalaska Island in the Aleutian chain, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - An Alaskan wildfire ignited by an errant spark from a power tool has spread to 50,000 acres and burned at least 70 structures in a popular recreation area, officials said on Saturday.
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Huge waves and freezing rain hampered efforts on Friday to search for six missing crew members from a wrecked freighter that was spilling its oil into the Bering Sea, threatening a remote and
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An oil spill near a fragile wildlife reserve off Alaska, unleashed when a freighter snapped in two last week, appears to be less serious than initially feared, officials said Monday.
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The Coast Guard lowered a salvage team to a freighter that broke in two pieces when it ran aground off Alaskaâs coast, seen as a key step toward cleaning up a destructive, oily mess stretching for miles.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - About 150 people have been  sent to an Aleutian island to try to clean up fuel oil  streaming from a wrecked cargo ship, but harsh weather has kept  most from the spill site, federal and state officials said on  Saturday.
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Oil prices rose 1 percent on Tuesday after bad weather forced a loading halt at Alaska's main export terminal and analysts forecast a drawdown in U.S. fuel stocks ahead of winter.
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The search for six crew members missing from a wrecked cargo ship off an Alaska island has been suspended, and authorities are focusing on the cleanup of spilled bunker fuel oil from the vessel, an official said on Saturday.
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Fuel gushes out of a grounded freighter off Alaska as the search goes on for six missing crew members.