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GPB s Grant Blankenship reports on the Golden Ray fire.
The Golden Ray, the massive container ship left stranded on its side in St. Simons Sound after running aground September 2019, was ablaze Friday afternoon, with flames stretching high into the air.
According to Lt. Pat Frain of the U.S. Coast Guard, the fire started when workers on the vessel used cutting torches to prepare a part of the hull for a much larger cut to come later.
Those torches started a small fire, which by Friday afternoon had become a massive blaze easily visible from the pier on St. Simons Island and billowing black smoke toward Jekyll Island.
Watch Live: Capsized Golden Ray cargo ship catches fire in Georgia
A Facebook page, Golden Ray Saint Simons Island Live Feed, is livestreaming as crews work to douse the flames. Thick plumes of smoke can be seen rising in the air. Author: First Coast News Staff, Mindy Wadley Published: 2:17 PM EDT May 14, 2021 Updated: 6:16 PM EDT May 14, 2021
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. The remaining wreckage of the capsized Golden Ray cargo ship has caught on fire in the St. Simons Sound Friday afternoon.
The Facebook page Golden Ray Saint Simons Island Live Feed is livestreaming as crews work to extinguish the flames. Thick plumes of dark smoke can be seen rising into the air.
Capsized Golden Ray cargo ship catches fire in St. Simons Sound
A Facebook page, Golden Ray Saint Simons Island Live Feed, is livestreaming as crews work to douse the flames. Thick plumes of smoke can be seen rising in the air. Author: First Coast News Staff, Mindy Wadley Published: 2:17 PM EDT May 14, 2021 Updated: 11:55 AM EDT May 15, 2021
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. The remaining wreckage of the capsized Golden Ray cargo ship has caught on fire in the St. Simons Sound Friday afternoon.
The Facebook page Golden Ray Saint Simons Island Live Feed is livestreaming as crews work to extinguish the flames. Thick plumes of dark smoke can be seen rising into the air.
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Tracking the long, strange trip of the Golden Ray
A boat carrying 4,200 cars capsized in St. Simons Sound in September 2019 and it’s still there.
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People began to gather on the pier at daybreak in ones and twos at first, dog walkers and early birds and retirees, but the crowd grew as the sky lightened and the sun pierced the horizon over the ocean.
Actually, the sun was not the only thing piercing the horizon. Some improbable object, too, chugged steadily forward across the water. From the pier, it looked like St. Louis’s Gateway Arch, but yellow and sort of steampunk less like a boat than a piece of heavy construction equipment. Which, essentially, it was: The