Drilling platform explodes off La. coast; no deaths or oil spill
Friday, September 3, 2010
NEW ORLEANS -- An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.
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