SAN DIEGO, July 13 — Flames raged for hours aboard a US warship docked at Naval Base San Diego yesterday, prompting an evacuation of the vessel and sending 21 people to the hospital with minor injuries, Navy and local fire officials said. The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department reported an explosion...
Firefighting boats spray water onto the US Navy amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard as smoke rises from a fire on board the ship at Naval Base San Diego, as seen from Coronado, California July 12, 2020. — Reuters pic
Palls of thick, acrid smoke visible for miles engulfed much of the 844-foot warship for several hours, as about half a dozen firefighting boats in the harbor trained streams of water onto the burning vessel. Two guided-missile destroyers docked nearby — the USS Fitzgerald and USS Russell — were moved to piers farther from the burning vessel within the next 90 minutes, the Navy said in a statement. Smoke from the fire appeared to begin dying around 3 pm local time.
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