Barge on Alabama's Mobile River explodes

[moobu2]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- A fire broke out on Alabama's Mobile River on Wednesday night after a fuel barge exploded, the city's fire department said on Twitter.
The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department, on its official Twitter feed, reported that it had "units on the scene on east side of Mobile River where a fuel barge has exploded and is on fire."
It was not immediately known whether anyone had been killed or injured.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/24/us/alabama-barge-fire/

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It's a natural gas barge and it just exploded again making it the 3rd. Dont know if there are injuries.

[TexasTowelie]

1. Three transported to hospital with injuries.

at 9:30. It was also two barges involved.

[Sunlei]

2. wow they are lucky it is out on the water and not in a port.

[Harry Monroe]

12. It is in the Port of Mobile. The city surrounds the port.

[moobu2]

3. A video of one of the explosions.

[Brimley]

4. Her name is Brooke Alexander

Corporate.......shill.

[quadrature]

5. pipelines bad, barges good.

yeah right

[moobu2]

6. All 3 injured are in critical condition

A fourth explosion has occurred. They are planning to let it burn. Still too unstable.

[daleo]

7. It could have been worse

Imagine if a bank of solar panels went critical, or a wind turbine exploded.

[jtuck004]

9. Millions of people suddenly getting their recommended daily dose of Vitamin D.

Oh, the inhumanity.

(and an APB out for Dr. Oz).

[Isoldeblue]

10. +1000 n/t :)

[awoke_in_2003]

13. No, not a wind spill...

Oh, the horror

[AtheistCrusader]

8. Clearly less regulation is the answer.

[Harry Monroe]

11. I am a Marine Surveyor and was just upriver of this when the first explosion happened

Had just about finished wrapping up a damage survey aboard a vessel docked on the west side of the Mobile River at the Alabama State Docks, when we heard a loud boom. I was in the Captain's office at the time and we all rushed to his porthole window and we could see the flames. The ship was due to sail shortly after I departed, but the river was shut down to traffic. 4 more explosions occurred after that one, but was on my way home to Biloxi by then.