The fire was out, but the scorch marks told the story aboard a workover rig in Jefferson Parish waters 20 miles south of New Orleans. At one time, flames leaped more than 100 feet in the air from the ...
LOS ANGELES -- A lengthy chase of a stolen big rig ended with the suspect's apprehension as the cab of the truck erupted in flames on the shoulder of the 210 Freeway. The chase came to an end around ...
Just months after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which leaked millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, another Gulf oil rig exploded into flames Thursday.
Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...
When fire erupted on a Mexican offshore rig, officials called it an accident but survivors told a different story. This investigation uncovers what really happened in those final hours and the secrets ...
Traffic is backed up on eastbound Interstate 10 due to a fire on a big rig truck early Thursday morning. First reported at 3:56 a.m., near the Bob Hope Drive exit, the fire initially closed the lanes ...
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (KGO) -- Early Friday morning a United Parcel Service big-rig crashed, causing a full freeway closure on I-580, before the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. The closure caused a huge ...
How could a single wave destroy one of the most advanced offshore rigs ever built? This documentary explores the 1982 sinking of the Ocean Ranger, the catastrophic chain of failures that followed, and ...