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re: USS Bonhomme Richard on fire at San Diego's 32nd Street Naval Base
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:59 pm to TigerCruise
Posted on 7/12/20 at 4:59 pm to TigerCruise
Not to mention all the PPE having to be worn due to covid, just makes matters worse.
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Posted on 7/12/20 at 5:00 pm to BuckyCheese
quote:I seem to remember about 19 years ago being told fire can’t do anything to steel, so it should be fine.
It's a steel ship....
Posted on 7/12/20 at 5:24 pm to omegaman66
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Was there a Wendy's on the ship?
Or a Target?
Posted on 7/12/20 at 5:57 pm to griswold
The ship may be steel but not much else is. Heck even the paint on the steel burns. Ship fires are no joke.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 6:23 pm to EKG
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I have so many questions.
But I don’t dare ask them on this website.
Smart move. I learned today that this board has largely turned into a cesspool of psychotic fanatics. There's no room for you here if you don't view everyone with a different ideology as the evil enemy who deserves a violent death.
This post was edited on 7/12/20 at 6:30 pm
Posted on 7/12/20 at 7:03 pm to tigerpawl
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When these ships are fully stocked with F35s and ospreys, they are considered the deadliest war ship afloat today.
10 F35s and a handful of vtols and helos do not constitute the deadliest ship afloat. The destroyers that escort the MEU have more firepower than an LHA.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 7:05 pm to OchoDedos
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10 F35s and a handful of vtols and helos do not constitute the deadliest ship afloat. The destroyers that escort the MEU have more firepower than an LHA.
Ballistic middle boats laugh at both of them.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 10:15 pm to EKG
Update from navy.mil:
LINK ]UPDATED 7:00 EDT: USS Bonhomme Richard Fire
SAN DIEGO (July 12, 2020) Sailors aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) prepare to fight a fire aboard the ship at Naval Station San Diego on July 12. On the morning of July 12, a fire was called away aboard the ship while it was moored pier side at Naval Base San Diego. Local, base, and shipboard firefighters responded to the fire. USS Bonhomme Richard is going through a maintenance availability, which began in 2018. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jason Kofonow/Released)
SAN DIEGO (July 12, 2020) Sailors aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) converse about a fire aboard the ship at Naval Station San Diego July 12. On the morning of July 12, a fire was called away aboard the ship while it was moored pier side at Naval Base San Diego. Local, base, and shipboard firefighters responded to the fire.
SAN DIEGO (July 12, 2020) Sailors aboard USS Bonhomme Richard don fire fighting ensembles to (LHD 6) fight a fire aboard the ship at Naval Station San Diego July 12.
LINK ]UPDATED 7:00 EDT: USS Bonhomme Richard Fire
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SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- UPDATED 7:00 EDT:
Federal Fire San Diego is the on-scene lead for firefighting efforts on Naval Base San Diego combatting the fire on USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6).
"Currently there are two firefighting teams fighting the fire aboard the ship,” said Federal Fire San Diego Division Chief Rob Bondurant. “Federal Fire is rotating their crews aboard the ship with U.S. Navy firefighting crews from the waterfront to fight the fire in order to, find the seat of the fire and extinguish it. Also, Navy Region Southwest tugs are also continuously combatting the fire from the bay”
The origin of the fire is still unknown and is pending investigation.
SAN DIEGO (July 12, 2020) Sailors aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) prepare to fight a fire aboard the ship at Naval Station San Diego on July 12. On the morning of July 12, a fire was called away aboard the ship while it was moored pier side at Naval Base San Diego. Local, base, and shipboard firefighters responded to the fire. USS Bonhomme Richard is going through a maintenance availability, which began in 2018. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jason Kofonow/Released)
SAN DIEGO (July 12, 2020) Sailors aboard USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) converse about a fire aboard the ship at Naval Station San Diego July 12. On the morning of July 12, a fire was called away aboard the ship while it was moored pier side at Naval Base San Diego. Local, base, and shipboard firefighters responded to the fire.
SAN DIEGO (July 12, 2020) Sailors aboard USS Bonhomme Richard don fire fighting ensembles to (LHD 6) fight a fire aboard the ship at Naval Station San Diego July 12.
Posted on 7/12/20 at 11:24 pm to TigerCruise
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The major issue has and always will be the quality of contractors we hire to work on ships. In SD a lot of them are ex criminals and Mexican nationals.
I was on BOXER at 32nd St. 1,000,000x this. Even worse when you're in NAASCOs dry dock. Female JOs requested to be escorted to and from their vehicles. Sunday duty, worst time.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 1:26 am to EKG
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The origin of the fire is still unknown and is pending investigation.
My money says boiler accident. This ship uses oil fired boilers, not nuke or gas turbine propulsion.
No heavy ordinance onboard (the kind that turned the Forrestal and Enterprise fires into disasters), so with "explosions" you're looking for some kind of concentrated fuel source. Bet they were doing boiler maintenance, and it went awry. Only other logical explanation is sabotage with explosives. I'm going with Occam here and betting on the boilers.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 2:44 am to TigerCruise
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The major issue has and always will be the quality of contractors we hire to work on ships. In SD a lot of them are ex criminals and Mexican nationals
Not exactly the cream of the crop in Norfolk either
Posted on 7/13/20 at 1:29 pm to pankReb
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Not exactly the cream of the crop in Norfolk either
The dry docks in Portsmouth are right in the middle of the hood.
I always felt bad for the people who lived in the barracks in Newport News. Those people got robbed all the time because that area is so ghetto.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 1:31 pm to VADawg
Portsmouth has been a shithole for a long time
Posted on 7/13/20 at 1:31 pm to roadGator
Every city in that region besides Va Beach and Chesapeake is ghetto as frick.
This post was edited on 7/13/20 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 7/13/20 at 1:33 pm to VADawg
And Virginia Beach has been taken over by the prog filth.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 1:34 pm to roadGator
I haven't been back there since 2012 but I'm not surprised. The progs found the one nice city in a region and will destroy it like locusts.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 1:49 pm to EKG
You could smell the smoke yesterday
Was lame at the beach
Was lame at the beach
Posted on 7/13/20 at 1:53 pm to SDVTiger
I read a few SD news stories earlier this morning that indicated the air quality—when mixed with marine fog— was awful out there today.
Hopefully that moisture as burned off by now?
Be safe, SDV.
Hopefully that moisture as burned off by now?
Be safe, SDV.
Posted on 7/13/20 at 1:55 pm to EKG
Its 80 and sunny as frick
Seems like it all blew towards Mexico
Seems like it all blew towards Mexico
Posted on 7/13/20 at 2:02 pm to DesScorp
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My money says boiler accident. This ship uses oil fired boilers, not nuke or gas turbine propulsion.
No heavy ordinance onboard (the kind that turned the Forrestal and Enterprise fires into disasters), so with "explosions" you're looking for some kind of concentrated fuel source. Bet they were doing boiler maintenance, and it went awry. Only other logical explanation is sabotage with explosives. I'm going with Occam here and betting on the boilers.
Doesn't fit with where it started.
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