The U.S. Coast guard said Thursday there are no immediate signs of an oil spill from a drilling platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. All 13 crew members were rescued from the water in the second similar accident in the gulf in less than five months. Earlier Thursday, the Coast Guard reported a 1.5-kilometer-long oil sheen 30 meters wide had started to spread from the site of the fire, about 320 kilometers west of the location of BP's massive oil spill, the biggest in U.S. history. But officials said at an afternoon news conference in New Orleans, Louisiana that boats at the platform site have not seen any oil sheen.
