ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — The Coast Guard Cutter Fir is due to return to its home port of Astoria on Friday afternoon.
The 225-foot seagoing buoy tender has spent the past four months in the Gulf of Mexico as part of the effort to control the Deepwater Horizon oil well.
The Fir and its 52 crew members normally service 152 aids to navigation on the river bars of the Washington and Oregon coasts and conduct law enforcement operations throughout the North Pacific.
