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.
Probaly because they are useless,as I said B4 they look like fleas on a bull
Nothing would surpruse me these days.
But I still think it’s like,y some kind of accident.
That is a rational perspective. I share it.
San Diego is a large port.
Here sits an asset ablaze worth about a billion dollars and only 3 fireboats are doing anything about it???
Why isn't the destroyer berthed next to BHR pouring water onto the blaze?
Smoke n Scan has video and audio too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2zdkCsjuf0
Fire looks huge.
It looks like millions in damage. Wonder if they will be able to salvage the ship.
So I am wondering, would the aircraft inside the hanger deck have been removed before re-fit? Maybe thats whats burning.
They may not have crew to man the ship’s firefighting gear, possibly anchor/gangway watch only, if that.
I’ve been pointing out that the USN has *ridiculously* degraded during the prior administration and many people have been denying it. This is one of the things that happens with a gutted Navy more interested in social experiments than being a Navy.
“Usually happens when some half-assed welder gets careless”
Early Sunday morning used to be holiday routine or “holiday roots” not much work going on. Of course that might have changed to accommodate the Muslims. In port they might have had port and starboard libs. Surprised they haven’t moved some of the ships close by.
The DDG alongside looks to be engines cold - there’s no heat coming out of the stacks and nobody on deck. Also no signs of diesel generators coming to life to run the pumps.
Hi.
“These days, I doubt anything is just an *accident*.”
Or a coincidence.
5.56mm
Being a sailor, we called that ship, the “Bonnie Dick”
2 different ends of the ship. 2 separate fires. Welders working on Sunday?
There’s an LCS at the next pier over that could be helping too, but it looks powered down and cold with no crew visible.
“I’ve been pointing out that the USN has *ridiculously* degraded during the prior administration and many people have been denying it. This is one of the things that happens with a gutted Navy more interested in social experiments than being a Navy.”
Get a look at the officers graduating from the USN Academy, not your Daddy’s navy anymore.
Or one fire that spread. The Japanese lost carriers to a single explosion, causing fires that spread rapidly.
This is a big loss for the Navy.
Probably wanted the day off like the guy who damaged the sub.
Dad was a Marine, but yeah. Unfortunately, waaaaaaay too many people here that think that we have the same Navy they served in the 80s, 90s or earlier. We don’t, but they keep denying reality.
I suspect there is more of this to come, unfortunately.
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