Dutch harbor, ak

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Russian Trawler Fire; Dutch Harbor, AK.
Dutch Harbor, AK.
1. Last Sunday, Oct. 25, a fire was reported to the Coast Guard, MSO Anchorage, in one of the compartments of the F/V Sotructnichnestvo, a 309 foot Russian fishing trawler/processor in port at Dutch Harbor. 2. The fire developed in a storage compartment where thousands of cardboard boxes are stored, all coated with wax. 3. The vessel has 900 mT of fuel--diesel, heavy oil, hydraulic and lube oil, and has 10 mT of ammonia in a large tank one deck below the compartment of smoldering cardboard. Action: 1. The compartment with the fire was immediately closed off on Sunday reducing the condition to a smoldering mass of cardboard. 2. On Monday, an attempt was made to open the compartment and flood it with water, but the fire flashed back That tack was halted and the compartment was resealed and has remained that way to the present, Thursday night, leaving only smoldering, flameless cardboard. 3. [...]
2. COMMODITY: DIESEL, HYDRAULIC AND LUBE OIL, AMMONIA.
3. POSITION 53.893N 166.538W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6906: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6906