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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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U.S. Army Captain Michael Kelvington, commander of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, bows next to remains of Gulam Dostager, a member of Afghan Local Police who was killed in the blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) during the joint Tor Janda (Black Flag in Pashtu) operation, in Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 25, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Members of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels fly over the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan as part of the 25th annual Fleet Week celebration in New York, May 23, 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Fri Sep 3, 2010 4:05pm EDT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The fire at Mariner Energy's oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico appeared to be an industrial accident and not an example of problems in regulatory oversight, the U.S. Interior Secretary said.

"It's not another Deepwater Horizon issue, it appears to be another industrial accident," Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters in Anchorage on Friday about the fire that occurred a day earlier. Deepwater Horizon was the oil rig that exploded in April, triggering the massive spill from a well owned by BP Plc.

The Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said on Friday it is investigating the Mariner fire. All 13 crew members that the fire forced into the ocean were rescued without serious injuries.

The Coast Guard said on Friday it found evidence of a small oil sheen that was probably caused by the fire fight.

(Reporting by Yereth Rosen; Editing by David Gregorio)
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