exNavyOffRec
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How bad does she look this morning?
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Bonhomme Richard fire
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Forward 2/3 of the island looks wrecked. Looks like forward mast has collapsed into the bridge. Eerily similar to the old pics of Arizona.
Last I saw it looked like the fire had reached most of the ship, and the island superstructure was wrecked.
exNavyOffRec
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Looks like there is still some power on the ship given those lights are on, hopefully that means the fire pumps are working.
Forward 2/3 of the island looks wrecked. Looks like forward mast has collapsed into the bridge. Eerily similar to the old pics of Arizona.
Geez. BZ to those pilots. Reminds me of the helo scene in the Chernobyl docu series.
(In case the video goes down, it’s a supposedly live video of HSC dropping water over the ship.)
Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Is it enough by mere fact? The pressure in Main Fire matters... But they surely got the fire under control for now, thanks God and Sierra crews.
Indeed. Good thing they are not the subjects of radiation. All five helo crews who were over Chernobyl for first three days, 10 officers and 5 sergeants, were all dead at the end of May 1986.
Probably is. Fore Flight is showing a news helicopter (N28F) just outside the TFR right now.
You'd think that, but our sister HSC squadron on my last deployment couldn't fly the D or be up Helo common with any regularity.
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
It's actually really hard to light a major fire like this with hot work by accident. That was the suspected cause of the Miami fire and they couldn't reproduce it in a lab. Turns out most things on ships are fire resistant. You basically would need to have the sparks hit some kind of fuel.
A hot work fire of this magnitude would also require two people to completely blew off the fire watch requirement and not have an extinguisher immediately on hand. If someone is going to be that malicious then the CDO and EDO aren't going to stop them.
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exNavyOffRec
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It sounds from the brief this morning the fire started where contractors had staged a lot of items in tri-walls, lots of flammable items, if it was from welding someone didn't check what was around them well enough.
It boggles the mind but right now anything is a possibility. This is right up there with walking under a crane and getting crushed because it dropped the load. Who knows. But disasters often follow patterns from previous, similar disasters...
Standby for safety stand downs coming for all ships, particually big decks in the yards. Can't help but imagine this scenario with a CVN instead of a Gator... USS Last Ship conducted mid patrol CMAV in FDNF with weaps and gas onboard. Work scope was very limited but the risk is always there. Can not fathom how a similar scenario would play out with the added complexity of a potential issues in the plant to go along with the fire. Heartbreaking to watch. Guessing the CDO is an O-4? can't imagine there are enough O5s to go around...
exNavyOffRec
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I was just quoting was was given in the past few briefs.
one brief said where it started.
one brief talked about all the items from the contractors down in the area the fire started.
info from a few sailors was leaked that welding had been occurring in the area where the fire started.
Thought of the day: San Dog’s personal injury bar has to be drooling at the thought of the JAGMAN investigation getting released.
I’m hearing that the smoke cloud has been hanging around greater San Diego, and I’m betting as soon as any implication of liability gets released to the public, there’s going to be a mother of a class-action lawsuit alleging it caused or exacerbated every non-COVID cough and sniffle in the entire city.
I’m hearing that the smoke cloud has been hanging around greater San Diego, and I’m betting as soon as any implication of liability gets released to the public, there’s going to be a mother of a class-action lawsuit alleging it caused or exacerbated every non-COVID cough and sniffle in the entire city.