LOS ANGELES: California authorities scrambled on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) to contain an oil slick and clean up normally tourist-friendly beaches after a pipeline rupture dumped thousands of gallons of oil into the ocean.
A day after the spill near Santa Barbara, northwest of Los Angeles, US Coast Guard spokeswoman Jennifer Williams said helicopter overflights had shown the slick stretched some nine miles (14 kilometers) along the Pacific Ocean coast.
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