BATON ROUGE – The Coast Guard and local authorities are still investigating a fire at an oil platform near Bayou Sorrel Wednesday.

According to a statement Wednesday, crews extinguished the fire around 1 p.m. Wednesday and will remain at the scene to monitor the platform.

Shortly before 9 a.m., a storage tank exploded on the platform in Berry Lake west of Bayou Richard as the platform was being dismantled. Two large storage tanks with an estimated 33,000 gallons of crude oil caught fire.

A LOT of oil needs to burn before anything can be done. More details coming up live at noon on @WBRZ pic.twitter.com/8ckm7ZdlDU

— MichaelVinsanau WBRZ (@MVinsanau) March 15, 2016

First responders made the decision Tuesday afternoon to allow the fire to burn itself out.

The Coast Guard reports that there has been a minimum amount of pollution caused by the fire.

The cause of the fire still remains under investigation.