Boundary cooling operations continued on Saturday on the Golden Ray wreck utilizing seawater and a fireplace monitor system put in on the VB-10000 following a fireplace contained in the wreck on Friday. [St. Simons Sound Incident Response photo.]
The fireplace that broke out contained in the wreck of the capsized automotive provider Golden Ray on Friday (see earlier story) had been efficiently extinguished by early that night, in response to the unified command that’s dismantling the vessels and eradicating it, part by part, from St. Simons Sound, Ga.
“Early this evening our firefighting teams successfully put out the fire inside the Golden Ray wreck,” stated U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Efren Lopez, federal on-scene coordinator. “ Safety is our highest priority and every member of the response displayed tremendous commitment to ensuring that emergency plans were followed during the entire fire fighting and evacuation evolution.”
Firefighting property remained on station all through the night time to mitigate any potential fireplace.
Response engineers started post-fire assessments of the wreck and wreck elimination gear on Saturday. The evaluation is more likely to take a number of days.
The VB-10000, the large heavy carry vessel getting used to dismantle what stays of Efen Lopez unhooked from Section Three of the wreck on Saturday and can shift away from it to permit for continued assessments for any harm sustained throughout the fireplace contained in the wreck on Friday.
The 150-yard security zone across the Environmental Protection Barrier across the wreck has been elevated to 200 yards for leisure vessels.
The response environmental unit has elevated water high quality monitoring to every day sampling operations within the neighborhood of the wreck website. Safety personnel will proceed to watch air high quality in the neighborhood utilizing cellular gear. To date, the monitoring efforts have produced zero detections of hazardous particulate matter.
On-water response groups proceed to mitigate very mild oil sheens and particles noticed across the wreck website. Natural Resource Advisors proceed to watch areas across the wreck website and the Environmental Protection Barrier for any wildlife exercise or impacts. Survey groups proceed to evaluate the shoreline to search out and take away any particles or different environmental impacts.
