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St. Simons Sound Incident Response Update: Crew safely evacuated following fire onboard wreck BRUNSWICK, Ga – A fire began on the wreck of the Golden Ray this afternoon. All non-essential responders from the VB-10000 have been safely evacuated and there are no reported injuries at this time. Responders were conducting pre-cutting operations and actively using fire suppression systems as a preventative measure when the fire began. Firefighting vessels are on scene. Safety personnel are conducting community air monitoring. The Golden Ray, the vehicle hauler which capsized in the St. Simons S...

GPB's Grant Blankenship reports on the Golden Ray fire. The Golden Ray, the massive container ship left stranded on its side in St. Simons Sound after running aground September 2019, was ablaze Friday afternoon, with flames stretching high into the air.  According to Lt. Pat Frain of the U.S. Coast Guard, the fire started when workers on the vessel used cutting torches to prepare a part of the hull for a much larger cut to come later.  Those torches started a small fire, which by Friday afternoon had become a massive blaze easily visible from the pier on St. Simons Island and billowing blac...

The ship, which has thousands of ruined new vehicles on board, caught fire earlier this afternoon.

Seawater being used to put out fire on a cargo ship wreckage off the Georgia coast The wreckage of a cargo ship off the Georgia coast caught fire during salvage operations on Friday and seawater is being used to extinguish the blaze, according to the US Coast Guard. The wreckage of the 656-foot Golden Ray caught fire just after lunchtime during cutting operations and spread to some of the vehicles remaining on what’s left of the ship, Coast Guard Cmdr. Efren Lopez said in a news conference. The fire is located on the top decks, Lopez said. Seawater is being used to put out the fire instead ...

Timeline: The many problems since the Golden Ray capsized in 2019 Updated:  Tags:  BRUNSWICK, Ga. – The saga of the Golden Ray began on Sept. 8, 2019. Since then we have seen problem after crisis after catastrophe for the doomed cargo ship dead in the water in St. Simons Sound. It was 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning in Brunswick when the cargo ship rolled onto its starboard side and the end of the line for the two-year-old 656-foot vessel designed to transport autos. There were more than 4,000 vehicles on the ship at the time. The Golden Ray would never sail again and the port was closed to al...