Posted on 08/27/2020 10:28:09 AM PDT by bitt
The devastating fire burned for four days before being extinguished.
A fire that ravaged the USS Bonhomme Richard last month in San Diego may have been the work of an arsonist, a Navy official told Just the News.
A sailor is under investigation for the fire that broke out July 12 aboard the amphibious assault ship, ABC 10News first reported on Wednesday.
Investigators obtained multiple search warrants for the unidentified sailor's home and property, the TV news outlet reported.
The ship caught fire on a Sunday morning while in port for repairs at Naval Base San Diego.
While the fire raged, some 63 people – 40 sailors and 23 civilians – were treated for minor injuries, the Navy said. The fire was extinguished four days after it began.
This is a developing story.
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It will be very interesting to find out who his/her associates and connections are. Its unlikely that an act of this magnitude was carried out by a lone wolf IMO.
When I was in the Navy, I knew of one pyromaniac.
A young petty officer who was one of those very chatty drunks.
After a few beers he mentioned he had been abused by his step dad for years, and mainly joined the service just to get out of that situation. A few months later, he was found to have started a fire in the Mess Hall. We put it out before much was damaged. I never saw this fellow again.
My untrained conclusion: Some pyros become that way when they think something irreplaceable was stolen from or destroyed within themselves.
I suspected this was arson from the get go.
And some of them go on to be serial killers.
If true, public hanging needs to be brought back.
If you cannot navigate your ship into another ship or run it aground, burn it at the dock...
What a disgrace the last couple of decades have been to the U.S. Navy's historically-excellent reputation...
Any name?
Or rather, Any motive yet?
The act is setting a fire. That doesn't imply a significant magnitude.
I think they need to go back to standards...you know, how it once was important to be a boy scout, or be in debate club or be an athlete or be in the honor society, and to do community service, or be in Key club, etc...plus good grades...
Yep!
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Fire burned for four days and destroyed most of the ship’s superstructure. There were also a couple of explosions, one loud enough to be heard 13 miles away.
I’d say that qualifies as a significant magnitude.
Its also interesting that the ship was being retrofitted to carry the new F-35B Joint Strike Fighter. Needless to say that set back the Navy’s plans to deploy the new stealth fighter jet on amphibious assault ships. Another significant aspect of this fire.
At least three investigations are underway.
That's confusing the outcome with the initial act. The act of setting the fire didn't have to be an act of significant magnitude. It's easy to start a fire.
It’s easy to start a fire.
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But not so easy to plan arson in such a way as to maximize damage.
It certainly can be. But you are making an assumption about what happened. That's all I'm pointing out. It could easily have been a case of one guy starting a simple fire. Or it might not have been. We don't know yet. You don't know by looking at the result, you're jumping to a conspiratorial conclusion.
Let’s say that many of us are not surprised, to say the least.
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No, the nature of the multiple ongoing investigations, explosions, and the existence of a person of interest strongly indicate that something nefarious took place. What exactly, we don't yet know but I'm not so sure there's such thing as a "simple fire" on a warship. We need to get to the bottom of it.
Others here on FR thought it suspicious also. I still remember the 500 million nuclear sub taken out by arson.
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