March 12, 2021 8:54am
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Ryan Parker
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A Russian submarine that was used in the Harrison Ford film
K-19: The Widowmaker caught fire this week in a Rhode Island scrapyard.
While it was in the process of being dismantled, a spark ignited rubber coating which led to a fire that burned roughly a 100 square-foot section, Michael Healey, spokesman for the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, told local media.
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breakdown The submarine, which sank into the Providence River in 2007, has been in the process of being dismantled since June 2019, Healey told media. About two dozen firefighters responded to the unusual blaze. There were no reported injuries.
NORTH PROVIDENCE – Mayor Charles Lombardi is set to finalize the purchase of more land to add to the town’s growing collection of open space parcels, following approval by the Town Council to purchase another six lots at Coletti Farm in the neighborhood behind Pauly Penta’s on Mineral Spring Avenue.
Combined with land the town previously purchased here two years ago, the purchase of these remaining lots, totaling $50,000 for 28,000 square feet, brings the total land owned by the town at Coletti Farm to about four acres, said Lombardi. The total cost of the earlier purchase of 3.8 acres was $1.1 million.
Trash spewed across the site - fire broke out Tuesday
Providence City Councilman Pedro Espinal is criticizing the ongoing contamination of South Providence after a fire erupted at the Rhode Island Recycled Metals site on the waterfront on Tuesday, sending black smoke into the air.
The site where the fire took place has operated under the claim that it is cutting up a sunken Russian submarine that was located in Providence more than a decade ago to serve as a museum. The sub was once used in a Harrison Ford movie K-19: The Widowmaker.” The site is covered with debris appliances, metal scrap, and garbage unrelated to the submarine.
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