UPDATE 1-Macondo rig fire was too big to fight -Transocean officer
March 25, 2013 at 18:15 PM EDT
NEW ORLEANS, March 25 (Reuters) - The officer in charge of safety on Transocean's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, destroyed in a BP well accident that caused the worst-ever U.S. offshore oil spill, said the post-blowout fire was too big to fight and the evacuation saved lives.