It has been a protracted evening for fireboat crews from Kent and Sussex counties, and plenty of different businesses, battling a big, barge fireplace in the midst of Delaware Bay.
The preliminary alarm was sound simply after 1 a.m. on Monday, Might 23, 2022, for the blaze in Delaware Bay within the space of the Miah Maull Shoal Mild, east of Dover Air Power Base.
Approximate location of barge fireplace in Delaware Bay
Photographs from the scene offered by Memorial Hearth Firm of Slaughter Seashore present flames billowing from the barge.
Fireboats had been nonetheless dousing the barge at the same time as daybreak broke.
No accidents have been reported.