ALERT!!!! MOBILE AL. Exploding fuel barges rock downtown Mobile, Alabama — Six blasts

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Exploding fuel barges rock downtown Mobile, Alabama — Six blasts reported over several hours — Firefighters pull back — Cruise vessel, shipyards evacuated (VIDEO)

Published: April 25th, 2013 at 7:28 am ET
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WKRG: Multiple Explosions Rock Downtown Mobile, Critically Injure 3 People [...] Emergency responders monitored a series of powerful explosions involving fuel barges with liquified natural gas on The Mobile River. The initial blast happened around 8:30 Thursday night, and could be felt as far away as Bay Minette.

NYTimes: A series of explosions on two fuel barges on the Mobile River in Alabama caused a fire to burn out of control into Thursday morning, leaving three people critically injured and forcing the evacuation of a Carnival Cruise Lines ship nearby.

AP: Multiple explosions aboard two fuel barges near Mobile, Ala., led to a major fire Wednesday night that left three people critically injured with burns and created a situation so unstable that fire and rescue officials decided to let the fire burn into the night. [...] As they were responding, a third explosion occurred at about 9:30 p.m., Mobile Fire and Rescue spokesman Steve Huffman wrote in an email to The Associated Press. Three more explosions followed over the next few hours.

Reuters: Explosions and resulting fires on two barges in the Mobile River off the Alabama city’s shore injured three people and forced officials to evacuate nearby shipyards and one cruise vessel on Wednesday. Mobile Fire Chief Steve Dean said that for safety reasons firefighters were keeping a distance from the barges, which were carrying raw gasoline and had already been the source of multiple explosions.
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Published: April 25th, 2013 at 7:28 am ET
By ENENews