It was notified
at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday that an oil production platform had
caught fire about 80 miles south of Grand Isle.
Four people aboard were evacuated and there were no reported
injuries, the Coast Guard said, adding the cause of the incident
was being investigated.
(Reporting by Apeksha Nair and Nithin Prasad in Bengaluru;
editing by Jason Neely)
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