Federal report highlights danger of gas tankers - Newsday.com: "People up to a mile away could get burned by a fire on a liquid natural gas tanker such as those that would supply the proposed Broadwater terminal in Long Island Sound, a federal report said yesterday.
In preparing the report, the Government Accountability Office examined six unclassified studies about the effects of a major spill and fire aboard a double-hulled tanker carrying liquefied natural gas. Most experts interviewed by investigators agreed such a fire could burn people's skin roughly one mile away, depending on variables that include the amount of gas released, size of the tanker breach, and winds, the GAO report said."
