[ryan71]

In the mid-80’s I was aboard a Spruance DD in a shipyard for an overhaul. One day, a shipyard worker was welding in an overhead when a fire broke out on some paper covering the deck. I and another sailor hastily put the fire out while a second shipyard worker, assigned as a firewatch laughed at us. He never got up off his ass. Fires in the shipyard were much more common than at sea.

[mylife]

LOL I have been through lots of fires at sea.
It’s pretty scary on a boat.