{"id":134667,"date":"2026-03-10T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134667\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:05:09","slug":"scrap-fire-erupts-on-barge-in-delaware-bay-polluting-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134667\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrap fire erupts on barge in Delaware Bay polluting air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard, along with firefighters from Wilmington and Philadelphia are responding to a massive blaze on a barge in the Delaware Bay. Live <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/massive-fire-erupts-scrap-metal-barge-delaware-river\/18699391\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aerial footage<\/a> shows what looks like giant piles of trash burning and sending black smoke billowing into the atmosphere. The skies as far north as Philadelphia are hazy and smell of smoke.\n<\/p>\n<p>The barge has been towed from the open waters of the Bay to Bombay anchorage, according to Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Matthew West. \u201cThere\u2019s a chance it will have to be moved again,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>West said the Coast Guard was notified at 7:20 a.m. of the incident, and it\u2019s hard to predict when the fire will be contained.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Multiple agencies are responding to the fire, including Delaware\u2019s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, along with the state\u2019s Natural Resources Police Fish and Wildlife.\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12475,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-134667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-delaware-river","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}