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Explosion Reported as Firefighters Battle Blaze on Navy Ship (USS Bonhomme Richard)
nbcsandiego.com ^ | 7/12/2020

Posted on 07/12/2020 11:27:54 AM PDT by bitt

An explosion erupted as a roaring blaze was reported on a military assault ship at Naval Base San Diego Sunday morning, according to authorities.

Plumes of smoke arose from USS Bonhomme Richard as firefighters battled the three-alarm blaze on the 3400 block on Senn St. The vessel is an amphibious assault ship homeported in San Diego, according to Krishna Jackson of Naval Base San Diego.

The ship had undergone a regular maintenance cycle before the fire was reported, Jackson said. Crew members typically are aboard the ship on weekends, but there are fewer than on weekdays.

Several sailors are being treated for injuries, according to the San Diego Fire Department. The extent of their injuries is unclear and authorities did not say how many sailors were injured.

It is unclear what sparked the fire.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; china; chinese; explosion; navy; qanondidit; redchina; sandiego; ussbonhommerichard; usship
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To: volunbeer

Small arms for security only, but there’s still fuel onboard unless they didn’t refuel after the overhaul and prior to the current refit to be able to fly the F-35B off her deck.


101 posted on 07/12/2020 1:10:43 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: rlmorel; TXnMA

Being reported that the Fitzgerald is docked next to the BR and being threatened by the fire. Bad luck ship? Just returned to SD after two year repair project.

https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/130667


102 posted on 07/12/2020 1:11:19 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: fso301

Just checked - those fireboats are literally the largest fireboats that San Diego harbor possesses. They have five of them. I can’t find any information on any USN fireboats. http://www.capecodfd.com/pages%20special/Fireboats_CA_San-Diego_FB_1.htm


103 posted on 07/12/2020 1:12:50 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: wally_bert
Probably wanted the day off like the guy who damaged the sub.

Exactly what I was thinking.

That was Casey James Fury, who did more than $400 million worth of damage to the USS Miami (SSN-755) back in 2012. Mr. Fury's plan was to get out of work early by setting fire to some rags in a bunk area.

At the close of his trial, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison, and also to pay $400 million in restitution; the second part of that sentence looks to me like the Navy letting its well-known sense of humor slip out.

104 posted on 07/12/2020 1:13:05 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Calvin Locke

It was 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/15/uss-miami-military-submarine-fire-sentence


105 posted on 07/12/2020 1:14:34 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Sigh. Most sailors do feel that there is such a thing as a “Bad luck ship”.

The USS JFK had her share of collisions, accidents, and shipyard fires. She actually had a bunch of them over a few years, and it was found to be a shipyard worker IIRC.


106 posted on 07/12/2020 1:15:16 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: bitt

Various talking heads/airhead anchors are butchering the name “USS Bonhomme Richard” (ron-home bishard) and in one case referred to the amphibious assault ship as an “assault rifle ship”.


107 posted on 07/12/2020 1:17:14 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: bitt

I think I recall a John Paul Jones ship with that name. (Maybe I’m wrong.)


108 posted on 07/12/2020 1:18:37 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: rlmorel

I have heard from more than one sailor that the JFK was a “bad luck” ship.

Hope the manage to tow the Fitz away before the fire gets to it.


109 posted on 07/12/2020 1:20:13 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: suthener

Norfolk? Newport News?


110 posted on 07/12/2020 1:21:03 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: fella

You’re right.


111 posted on 07/12/2020 1:21:49 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: neodad

“As a former Navy firefighter.”

When my career Navy father was stationed at Great Lakes, the early 1950s.
Occasionally he would take us to a graduation ceremony(?), where they had huge open-top tanks with fuel oil burning inside. They had bleachers set up at a safe distance.
A team would line up outside feeding hose to the front and others spraying water on the front of the team, and they would enter the tank and extinguish the flame!!!
Amazing.

Years later I learned from Navy friends that the EPA SHUT IT DOWN!
It was replaced with a smaller set up inside a containment with air scrubbers to clean the smoke.

They said they still do it.

Nothing I would want to be involved with, even when I was young and crazy.


112 posted on 07/12/2020 1:22:20 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

I didn’t know whether to laugh or sigh at that post about getting the Fitz away from it!


113 posted on 07/12/2020 1:22:55 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: rktman

2 DDGs and Independence class LCS and replenishment ship.


114 posted on 07/12/2020 1:24:44 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Never bring a liberal gun law to a gun fight.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

This ship is the namesake of that one. Many ships that distinguished themselves well will have their names used by replacement ships when the original gets scrapped, and the most significant names continue in commission. It’s why there has been a long series of US military ships named Enterprise.


115 posted on 07/12/2020 1:25:11 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: metmom

Chinese?
Hezbollah?
Iran?

Or some ANTIFA/BLM mad sailor stowaway?


116 posted on 07/12/2020 1:25:21 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: mad_as_he$$; rlmorel
Don't tell me that all the Navy (& civilian) folks in San Diego can't get a line on the Fitz -- and a tug to pull her out of danger!

If, that is, the crew can't get her underway on her own...

I can't believe anyone would just surrender that kind of (re) investment!

TXnMA
  

117 posted on 07/12/2020 1:26:30 PM PDT by TXnMA (Anagram: "PANDEMIC --> DEM PANIC")
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To: rdl6989

Welding accident my foot.


118 posted on 07/12/2020 1:26:35 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: janetjanet998

“yes,,sailers running away now”

And hw do you know that?


119 posted on 07/12/2020 1:26:54 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

Reported on the SDFD’s scanner, which is online.


120 posted on 07/12/2020 1:29:33 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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