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Coast Guard Investigating Oil Rig Fire In Gulf Of Mexico

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating a fire at an oil drilling platform off the coast of Louisiana, the Associated Press reports:

Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts tells WWL-TV that the platform is a shallow water platform in the Gulf of Mexico. It is near West Cote Blanche Bay, south of New Iberia on the south-central Louisiana coast.

Two people are missing and four have been medivaced to a hospital, per MSNBC.

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