{"id":483395,"date":"2026-10-03T02:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483395\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:06:12","slug":"huntington-beach-harbor-oil-spill-cleanup-after-boat-fire-sinking-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483395\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntington Beach Harbor oil spill cleanup after boat fire, sinking \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal and local agencies responded to an oil spill in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/?s=huntington+beach+harbor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huntington Beach Harbor<\/a> after a recreational vessel caught fire on Wednesday and sank in its slip, potentially releasing diesel fuel into the water, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach received a report at 2:10 p.m. that a 40-foot pleasure craft had caught fire at a residential dock in the 16000 block of Ardsley Circle. <\/p>\n<p>Huntington Beach firefighters arrived at the scene and used firefighting foam to battle the blaze. The vessel later sank in its slip at about 4 p.m., according to the Coast Guard. Firefighters said they used a boat-mounted water cannon and hose lines to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/huntington-beach-boat-fire\/3949777\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fight two boat fires<\/a>, which were tied together. No one was aboard the boats.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters deployed containment booms and absorbent pads after diesel fuel began leaking from the vessel.  <\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard, California Department of Fish and Wildlife\u2019s Office of Spill Prevention and Response, Huntington Beach Fire Department and Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Harbor Patrol responded to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach federal on-scene coordinator activated the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund and contracted an oil spill response organization to begin removing the spilled fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel has a maximum estimated fuel and oil capacity of 520 gallons. The amount of fuel that was discharged into the harbor has not been determined.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries or impacts to wildlife have been reported, according to the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire and the amount of fuel released remain under investigation as cleanup efforts continue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard, California Department of Fish and Wildlife\u2019s Office of Spill Prevention and Response, Huntington Beach Fire Department and Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Harbor Patrol responded to the incident Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal and local agencies responded to an oil spill in Huntington Beach Harbor after a recreational vessel caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[588,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-483395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-huntington-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}