The Coast Guard is saying there are no immediate signs of a spill from an oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.

All 13 crew members were rescued from the water in the second such disaster in the Gulf in less than five months.

The Coast Guard initially reported an oil sheen a mile long and 100 feet wide had begun to spread from the site of the fire, about 200 miles west of the site of BP's massive spill. But officials said at a Thursday afternoon news conference that boats at the platform have not seen any oil sheen.

Ben-lesau says the fire on the platform has been put out.

The rig is in shallow water, about 340 feet deep. And responding to any oil spill would be much easier than in deep water. The BP well that spewed oil and gas into the Gulf for three months was in water about 5,000 feet deep.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says he's been told by the platform's owner that there were seven active production wells there, and that they were shut down shortly after the fire broke out.

All 13 crew members were rescued. The Coast Guard says one crew
member was injured, but the platform's owner says there were no injuries.

Thursday's explosion happened about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay
along the central Louisiana coast. That's west of the site of the April explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig leased by BP that caused the massive oil spill.

Seven Coast Guard helicopters, two airplanes and three cutters were dispatched to the scene from New Orleans, Houston and Mobile, Alabama.

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