Coast Guard responds to vessel fire offshore Adak

KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard responded to a vessel fire approximately 300 miles south of Adak, Wednesday. Watchstanders at the Seventeenth Coast Guard District command center received a distress alert Tuesday at approximately 3:15 p.m. reporting a fire aboard the cargo ship Morning Midas, a 600-foot U.K.-flagged cargo vessel with 22 crew members and reportedly carrying several thousand […]


