ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A fuel tanker that departed Russia in mid-December has arrived at Alaska's western coastline and is waiting for daylight near the iced-in city of Nome.
The tanker is hauling 1.3 million gallons (4.92 million liters) of fuel for the town, which didn't get its pre-winter fuel delivery because of a storm.
The tanker was shepherded through hundreds of miles (kilometers) of sea ice by a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker. Coast Guard official Adam De Rocher says the vessel was 6 miles (10 kilometers) offshore Friday morning.
The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has been working with the fuel supplier on a plan to transfer the fuel through a more than mile long tanker hose.
But that won't begin until after the sun rises. Daylight doesn't come to that part of Alaska until 11:30 a.m. local time.
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