Aleutian Falcon overnight Feb. 17.
The fire, which started on Wednesday at 10:00 pm, was reported under control as of 5:15 am Thursday, as several fireboats fought the blaze.
#BREAKING The #USCG has issued a 1000-yard safety zone in the @PortofTacoma as @TacomaFire battles a fire aboard a moored commercial fishing boat. #USCG crews are on scene to enforce zone and monitor pollution potential. Fire continues to burn. Check back for updates. https://t.co/nOLKK6ESUU USCGPacificNorthwest (@USCGPacificNW) February 18, 2021
Fire officials were concerned by the 48,000 gallons of diesel fuel aboard the vessel, as well as 10,000 pounds of ammonia reported nearby the vessel.
Credit Laura Kraegel/KUCB
Trident Seafoods huge processing plant on the remote Aleutian island of Akutan reopened Friday after a nearly month-long COVID-19 closure.
An outbreak at the plant forced the fishing giant to close the facility in late January just as the lucrative winter season was set to kick off. Forty-five percent of Trident s 700-person workforce ultimately tested positive for the virus, company officials said Monday.
Multiple rounds of comprehensive testing brought welcome news last week that COVID-19 cases had been isolated on site, Trident said in a statement. Surveillance testing, symptom screenings and the use of PPE and distancing protocols continue, and will remain throughout the season.
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Trident Seafoods has reopened its Akutan, Alaska, processing plant after more than 40 percent of its workforce there contracted COVID-19.
According to a company press release, the plant resumed some processing on Friday, 19 February, almost a month after the plant ceased operations due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which began with four positive cases but ballooned into a major outbreak. More than 115 workers who had been quarantined in Sand Point and Anchorage have returned to Akutan and resumed work on crab, cod, and pollock processing, the company said. Just two workers at the plant remain positive for COVID-19, and both are being isolated, according to the Anchorage Daily News.