Tar balls on South Florida beaches have dissipated on their own, Coast Guard says
After aerial flights and physical searches, the Coast Guard says the little blobs of oil are no longer floating ashore.
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Coast Guard investigates tar on South Florida beaches
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Tribune News Service) — South Floridians enjoying a pleasant Saturday at the beach found themselves ...
Vacation destination closes beaches over gross ‘tar balls’ as cause remains a mystery: ‘Thought it was a sea creature’
When we first came down here, there was like weird, black globs on the beach … I thought it was a sea creature or something,” one man said.
Several beaches in Broward County closed after tar balls reportedly wash ashore
Several beaches across Broward County were closed on Saturday after reports of tar bar washed on shore, officials said.
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Tar balls wash ashore along Broward coastline, prompting beach closures
It was a beautiful day on Fort Lauderdale Beach, until a strange substance cut it short.Swimmers were forced out of<a ...
Coast Guard looking for source of oily tar balls that washed up on Fort Lauderdale Beach
At 7:05 p.m. Saturday, the Coast Guard’s Southeast District posted to social media that “Coast Guard air and surface crews completed searches from Palm beach to Port Everglades for the source of the ...
South Florida beaches seeing oily tar balls wash ashore; Coast Guard investigating
South Floridians enjoying a pleasant Saturday at the beach found themselves stepping in dark, greasy balls of oil, possibly ...
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Parts of Fort Lauderdale Beach closed for swimming as oily tar balls wash up on shore
Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue announced that the oily substance on the beach prompted lifeguards to tell beachgoers to stay out ...
Fort Lauderdale beach advisory prompted after unknown oily substance found
Ocean Rescue lifeguards are telling people to avoid the water from Riomar Street south to the Port Everglades inlet.
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Police: Child nearly drowns in Broward house pool
WILTON MANORS, Fla. – A child nearly drowned in a house pool on Friday afternoon in Broward County. Wilton Manors police ...
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1 dog dead after house erupts in flames in Fort Lauderdale
A fire that ignited inside a Fort Lauderdale home claimed the life of a pet, officials said.Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...