{"id":30121,"date":"2012-05-25T08:56:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30121"},"modified":"2012-05-25T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T12:56:46","slug":"fire-on-uss-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30121","title":{"rendered":"Fire on USS Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonn e-mailed me yesterday and asked me if I knew anything about the fire that was on USS Miami which broke out Wednesday evening and burned for almost 12 hours. Unfortunately, several firefighters and a couple of the sailors were hurt fighting the fire, but none of the injuries were serious and all have been treated and released. A summary of what went down can be found in this link from the Portsmouth (NH) Herald.<\/a><\/p>\n

No cause and no dollar estimate is yet available for the fire that swept through the forward compartment of the nuclear-powered submarine beginning just before 6 p.m. Wednesday, but the damage was described as \u201cextensive.\u201d <\/p>\n

Navy officials sealed the damaged part of the submarine and as of Thursday afternoon had not gone below. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey don’t want to introduce any oxygen until they’re sure the fire can’t reignite,\u201d said Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, who toured the site Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

It was unclear on Thursday whether USS Miami would be able to return to service. Breckenridge said Thursday it was too early to say if the sub could be salvaged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But usually it boils down to two things–hotwork and inadequate fire watches for same.<\/p>\n

York Beach Fire Chief Dave O’Brien said his firefighters were providing backup at the shipyard fire station and were not directly involved in battling the blaze. However, he said, he has worked at the shipyard in submarines and has a sense of what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a confined space with one way in and one way out, so whatever you do it’s much more difficult than fighting a building fire,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

He said most air packs last for 30 minutes, so there had to be a continuous flow of firefighters in and out. \u201cYou only have minutes to do something and then you have to get out and someone else has to go in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what I know of submarines and firefighting, it’s a whole different world in there,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Congrats on your award for Underestatement of the Year, Chief. Nothing quite says “pucker factor” like shipboard fires, and on a submarine it’s that much worse since there’s no place to go. I’ve been involved with a minor fire in shipyard on my first boat (started in AMS versus Torpedo Room on Miami) and I was on watch in the Engineering spaces, and even then the smoke from a fire that was put out in less than a minute was acrid and thick. There’s some speculation as to whether or not USS Miami will even be salvageable, but in any event, I hope the crew of the Miami likes it up here in New Hampshire\/Maine, because their 20-month overhaul just got a lot longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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