Monday, October 27, 2014
Crews keep listing barge from sinking at Long Beach
Crews worked Thursday to keep a maintenance barge for the Catalina Express ferry from sinking off Long Beach.
The 110-foot by 30-foot barge, which serves as a fuel feeder for Catalina Express, started taking in water about 11 p.m. Wednesday at the Port of Long Beach, according to Jake Heflin, a spokesman for the Long Beach Fire Department.
A security guard reported the sinking barge—he spotted it listing to one side near the Catalina Express landing.
Long Beach fire crew, alongside Los Angeles firefighters and the U.S Coast Guard, worked overnight to remove water from the sinking barge, which was attached to a 20,000-gallon underwater fuel tank, but the a fire department spokesman said no fuel had been released into the water.
For more of the Los Angeles Times story: www.latimes.com
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