Your (educated) opinions on this Navy ship afire "Bonhomme Richard"

moparmandan said

Yep. Fire fighting systems disabled and damage control hatches blocked open etc etc.
I will say one thing I don't understand is you don't have to disable the entire ship's fire fighting system. You can do it in sections. And we were trained to be ready to fight a fire from another section of the ship if needed. Probably a personnel and training issue there too.

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Yep and they were in an avail for a couple of years meaning the Shipyard was taking care of everything for them. There were a bunch of tri-walls in the lower V that the crew was unloading to move back on the ship and this is where the fire started. Lots of fuel that probably went up pretty quick and overwhelmed the minimal duty section that was onboard on a Sunday. Figure an SBA cooked off and that was the explosion that everyone talked about and lead to everyone being pulled of the ship for a while.