Spills · grounding
Mississippi river, ar
Tug Laine Jones On Fire; Mississippi River, Ar · NOAAORR-1097
- issued
- 2003-09-08 00:00Z
- status
- cancelled 2003-09-22 00:00Z
- self-cancels
- 2003-09-22 00:00Z
- authority
- NOAA OR&R
- position
- 34.521, -90.573
- vessels
- TUG CARRIED · 3 messagesTUG LAINE JONESTUG RECOVERED · 4 messages
- source
- incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z
Original warning text
Tug Laine Jones on Fire; Mississippi River, AR. Mississippi River, AR. 1. Tug Laine Jones grounded at River Mile 620.8 right descending bank of the Mississippi River, near Phillips County Arkansas and caught fire. The tug carried 60000 gallons of diesel, and the cargo on the nearest its barges included a hazardous material - 1,1,1 trichloroethane aka methyl chloroform. The USCG requested weather, evacuation boundaries, PPE, and the impacts downstream. NOAA HAZMAT provided this information along with CAMEO chemical information. Tug recovered and was moved for repairs. 2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: DIESEL OIL , METHYL CHLOROFORM. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 60000 GALLONS. TAGS: GROUNDING. 3. POSITION 34.521N 090.573W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 1097: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/1097
This area · spills & pollution incidents
13 within 180 nm since 2003 · 1 in the last 12 months · 0 in force now
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- Towing vessel aground; mile marker 526 of mississippi river, arkansas2025-07-21
- M/V concordia; mm 82 arkansas river pine bluff, ar2016-01-26
- On january 21, 2016, the uscg sector lower mississippi river notified the noaa for assistance with the utv…2016-01-21
- Utv cynthia g. esper/ helena highway bridge; mm 661.7 lmr helena, ar2016-01-12
- M/V william strait; mm 727 mississippi river near memphis, tn2015-12-14
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