
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 7, 1990                   TAG: 9003072066
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: LINDEN, N.J.                                LENGTH: Short

DIESEL FUEL SPILLED INTO NEW JERSEY RIVER

Environmental crews early today kept watch on a fuel spill caused when a barge exploded in a spectacular column of flame in a channel separating New Jersey from New York City.

The spill, the result of Tuesday afternoon's blast and blaze aboard a barge carrying 4.2 million gallons of diesel fuel, left a slick spreading from the smoldering hulk, but the amount spilled was not immediately known. One person was injured.

-Associated Press

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