Oil Spill Set Ablaze

Fox News reports the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been set on fire. The spill has been spreading. Winds could push the spill toward beaches. The fire was set to (hopefully) destroy the oil spill.

The Coast Guard reports oil is still coming out of the well head. Remotely operated vehicles have been sent to try to cap the leak.

"Right now, what the ROVs are doing is pumping a hydraulic fluid into the blowout preventer, in hopes to build pressure [to] close the hydraulic valve," Terrell told LiveScience. "The valve is supposed to work automatically, so now we're trying to come up with different ways to activate the blowout preventer manually."

Coast Guard Petty Officer Connie Terrell reports all efforts with the ROVs have been unsuccessful. Skimmers have been sent to retrieve up the oil from the ocean. So far 260,000 gallons of an oil-water mix has been recovered.

Update: The Coast Guard says they started the controlled burn because the spill was headered toward the Louisiana coast