Oil platform explodes off Louisiana

The crew is rescued and there are no signs of a leak, but the accident sparks new debate about wells in the gulf.The opening scene was all too familiar. Black smoke rising from a burning oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico and workers plucked from the sea. But Thursday's fire on an oil production facility 100 miles off the Louisiana coast appears to have ended without disaster.

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