CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Hundreds of dead gulls were killed or maimed after what investigators believe was cooking oil spewed out of a sewer pipe into the Cuyahoga River.
Investigators said Friday that several hundred gallons of the substance killed or disabled hundreds of gulls near the Kingsbury Run tributary.
Most of them are just downstream from the site where environmentalists last week celebrated the river's remarkable comeback since floating oil and debris caught fire on June 22, 1969.
The burning river became a standing joke and a symbol of urban decay and runaway pollution.
Dozens of sludge-covered gull carcasses could be seen by rowers with the Cleveland Rowing Foundation early Friday, most near the sprawling steel mill site near downtown Cleveland.
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