The barge fire that spewed black smoke for miles on Tuesday evening in the Duwamish River was ruled accidental with a damage estimate of $1 million according to the Seattle Fire Department.

Our original coverage including the live video is here.

The Washington State Dept. of Ecology said that no oil sheen was detected despite at least two crushed cars still aflame dropping into the river. No word on whether they will be brought to the surface. They found no evidence of harm to wildlife.

Crews were busy moving some of the charred wreckage ashore reducing the overall load on the barge.

It will take some time to offload the barge since many of the remaining crushed cars are in somewhat precarious positions.

The US Environmental Agency said they had not been contacted about remediation and local salvage and dive firm Global Salvage had also heard nothing about recovering the cars that went in the river.