Thousands of gallons of diesel were released into the Tennessee River after a tugboat sank in northwest Alabama, prompting calls for swimmers to get out of the water after the fuel began washing up on nearby shores, authorities said Sunday.
The tugboat sank near O’ Neil Bridge and began to release roughly 3,000 to 5,000 gallons of diesel into the water, the Florence Alabama Police Department said in a news release. “Diesel fuel has began to wash up the beaches of McFarland Park,” the department added. People who were swimming at McFarland Park in Florence were asked to get out of the water, according to the release.
No one was aboard the tugboat when it sank, and it’s unclear what caused it to go down, the City of Florence and Lauderdale County Emergency Management Agency Director George Grabryan told CNN. Clean-up operations and work to raise the boat were suspended at dusk, and will resume in the morning, Grabryan said. “They have got the area boomed off as to not let this get any worse than it already is, so we’ve got some containment in place,” Grabryan added.
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