Screen seize from video posted on Twitter by @WightKATU
Coast Guard and Unified Command personnel have been this afternoon making an attempt to suppress a fireplace that broke out inside the remaining portion of the wreck of the capsized automobile service Golden Ray, which is being dismantled and eliminated in sections from St. Simons Sound., Ga.
Local media report Coast Guard spokesperson Michael Himes as saying that the fireplace was seemingly attributable to welding torches being utilized by technicians who have been making inside cuts to organize a slicing path for the subsequent reduce by means of the wreck, which is being sliced into sections utilizing a series rigged between the dual gantries of the heavy raise vessel VB-10000.
Reportedly, slicing had been suspended because the technicians made their preparatory cuts.
The St. Simons Sound Incident Response issued this assertion;
All non-essential responders from the VB-10000 have been safely evacuated and there aren’t any reported accidents at the moment.
Responders have been conducting pre-cutting operations and actively utilizing hearth suppression programs as a preventative measure when the fireplace started.
Firefighting vessels are on scene. Safety personnel are conducting neighborhood air monitoring.
Posts on Twitter, YouTube and a live FaceBook stream confirmed smoke, and at time flames, coming from the wreck.
