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September 27, 2006

Update: Port oil spill only a drill / Photo

Journal photo / Andrew Dickerman
Emergency officials were staging a mock oil spill off Collier Point Park for training purposes this morning at the Port of Providence. The drill involved how to respond to a call from fishermen that a ship was leaking fuel into Narragansett Bay, according to information released by the state Department of Environmental Management yesterday. Above, boats from Providence, East Providence and Cranston fire departments set containment booms.

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