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>> A rescue mission is underway for 4 crew members now missing for 20 hours. After a cargo
ship caught fire
then capsize near brunswick’s
the sea ship of this magnitude
this size.
Over on its side and I think
Simon found it’s very unusual
is still take a while to
resolve it. The Coast Guard
releasing this video of
helicopter crews saving 20
people on board the Golden
Ray chef in the Saint Simon
sound it is a complex
situation. So we’re looking not
just for the
safety of.
>> The to be able to rescue
people that are on board but
also be able to provide safety
for group right now a damage
assessment team is on its way
to inspect the damage is.
>> And to deploy spill
containment booms Smith be a
will involve a mobile home is
>> He too old and
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>> what’s possible.
>> Sky 4 flew
over the stranded vessel near
the mouth of fancy bluff Creek.
And you can see the oil
leaking into the water and
tonight we’ve learned a
swimming advisory for the Saint
Simons a Jekyll Island beaches.
>> Has been issued until more
is known about the
environmental impacts we’ve
been covering this story all
day since we first notified our
viewers to a push alert on news
4 Jax app
now.
>> We have crews talking with
officials and people in the
area about what happened we
start with news 4 Jax reporter
Brittany Jones who is live from
the pier Brittany there’s still
no word on those 4 missing crew
members.
>> Knows gotten Ginny’s and I just spoke to the Coast Guard about 30 minutes ago and right
now they tell me they have
crews monitoring that cargo
ship is too dark to see, but
you can see those lights center
around the ship right there
they had been monitoring as
they begin to just wait until
they can get inside they told
me right now this safety
conditions are unknown at this
time in time is winding down.
And right now everyone is just
praying that they are found.
>> This is a glimpse into the rescue mission as crews worked to save crew members from this
cargo ship
20 saved, but the other 4 still
but as day broke this is what people saw takes all this team, Adam.
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Adam. ♪ ♪
♪ ♪ >> To look at what I’ll
like this.
>> James Mitchell worked aboard
a ship like this for 40 years,
he just retired last week, it
was shocked to see this.
>> I’ve seen them and pass and
ownership because like I say we
all doing
a job in some time we get from
me you would have the Coast
Guard says around 2 this
morning, they received an
urgent call for help.
>> After this ship called the
Golden Ray caught fire in
rolled onto its side. It’s
still unclear what caused the
fire. The Coast Guard says the
fire was coming off the
starboard side that appear to
be in the area of the cargo the
ship is a roll on roll off ship
used to transport vehicles
there were 4200 vehicles aboard
the ship when it capsized
several agencies including the
port partners are working with
the Coast Guard to search by
the Coast Guard tells us it’s a
complex mission to keep others
safe. While searching for those
still missing. We don’t keep
praying.
>> All we can do hope.
>> Now we know the ship was expected in Baltimore tomorrow at 11 we get more perspective
from a retired longshoreman we
share is what
he knows. He says could be
helping them survive inside.
Reporting live in Saint Simon
sound Brittany Jones Channel 4
the
local station. News 4 Jax
reporter Maggie Lorenz talk
with people.
>> Down at the pier today
for all over the state they
were coming in Maggie are there
still a lot of people out there
right now.
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>> Jenny says 10 o’clock at night and yeah, they’re still a couple dozen people out here on
the benches behind me and then
also at the end of the pier and
pretty much everyone that we
talked to today all of their
reactions have been I just
can’t believe this happened.
We also talked to the river
keeper of the same Simon sound
here and she told us today that
the environmental impact of all
of this
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of this ♪ could be devastating.
>> Tie and mouth wide along the pier this evening. It’s crazy in that. I think it
would happen Too
much medal. Just give my love with this mom drove her kids and our firm Blackshear to have
what she calls a
teaching moment.
>> Teaching them about Sam bars
and things of that nature so I
guess we’re here moreover.
>> That is a part of the
community and to teach the
children. It out with a light
experience. It
is like and then put my dislike
from basically exploded like a
a like these things could
happen.
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You’d be hard pressed to find someone more surprised than season in the mix,
she’s the river keeper at the
same time and sound and spends
countless hours up and down
patrolling the coast.
She says she’s seen ships run
aground but never tip over a
they’re just not designed to do
that something else has
happened to it. She says the
ship had 40,000 gallons of fuel
on it and then it’s full of
cars.
>> That half you in on itself.
Currently there’s a small week
not quite sure where it’s
coming from doesn’t seem to be
actually. What is the ships if
you
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you ♪ will in.
It seems to be coming
from somewhere else and might
be something coming from the
cars when they fell over,
and now are leaking of the
ship’s it could take weeks to
right the ship and mint is
worried the environmental
impact could be.
>> Catastrophic
this area is actually a part of
a toxic legacy in general, we
have multiple super fund sites.
We have a full meal
that these are ever and we have
coal ash ponds right next to
River. So this is just another
blow to this coast and it will.
>> Destroy it.
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>> We haven’t heard what officially caused all of this to happen. But earlier today I
talked to an attorney who
specializes in maritime law
and he shared his thoughts for
what he thinks might have
caused this shift over turn
coming up at 11 how he thinks
hurricane Dorian may have