Thank for the reply:
Fire underway should be any sailor’s nightmare.
Absolutely no where to go!
Hope you’re doing well.
Glad to do it. Most of my fires were swab fires. Guys stripped floors to wax them and didn't clean the mop good. Spontaneous combustion at about 0200-0500 that night LOL
Fires on ship are a very serious matter at the pier or at sea. More so at sea because the crew absolutely must stop the fire to stop the carnage. In home port you have civilian base or shipyard FD back up.
BTW the fire I was involved in was spontaneous combustion. It was a storeroom off Hanger Bay 2 that was padlocked and a sizeable amount of oily rags and cardboard inside. I imagine Air Dept officers got a royal chewing over that one.